Amongst other things we found the IP addresses of his targets and that is part of the evidence we are sending to the Netherlands.' 'The van was fitted out as a mobile office from which he could launch his attacks. 'But Britain, the United States and Germany were all affected by the massive denial of service attacks that he launched. 'The request to arrest him came from the Netherlands,' said the police officer, who heads the cybercrime unit in Barcelona. 'He said he was the telecommunications minister and foreign minister of a place called the Cyberbunker Republic. 'He claimed he had diplomatic status,' said the Spanish police officer who led the operation, but asked not to be named. Kamphuis displayed a Napoleonic sense of grandeur. A copy of the science fiction writer Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver lay on the unmade bed. When Spanish and Dutch police arrested him they found the flat occupied by a tangle of cables and computer gear. Kamphuis, 35, is one of the most controversial characters in the murky world of spam and hacking – deemed the internet's public enemy number one by some, though others believe his reputation has been blown out of proportion by the grandstanding of his foes.Ĭapable of rigging up sophisticated computer systems anywhere, including the back of a van, he allegedly masterminded a flurry of March internet attacks that the security company CloudFlare claimed 'almost broke the internet', plunging the world into digital darkness.

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