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A TEEN fan of hit game Call Of Duty was last night under arrest for deliberately bringing its online version crashing down - to boost his SCORE.
The cheating Brit, 17, was tracked down by Scotland Yard cyber cops after sabotaging the site from his bedroom to prevent tens of thousands of rival players logging on.
His aim was to rack up the winning score by preventing anyone better than him killing his character. Video game giant Activision was left battling for hours to get the online version of Call Of Duty: Black Ops up and running again.
The college geek crippled the wargame site with a malicious program he wrote - which he sold online so other gamers could cheat. It bombards websites with messages until they grind to a halt under the volume - known as Denial of Service.
A massive hunt by Scotland Yard's Central e-Crime Unit traced the nerd, who is from a respectable family, to Beswick, Greater Manchester - where he was nicked for computer crime.
A police source said last night: "His whole world came crashing down when we knocked on his door at 6am.
"He was still in bed and didn't realise he was in so much trouble."
Call Of Duty: Black Ops is the fastest selling video game of all time, shifting seven million copies within 24 hours of going on sale.
A TEEN fan of hit game Call Of Duty was last night under arrest for deliberately bringing its online version crashing down - to boost his SCORE.
The cheating Brit, 17, was tracked down by Scotland Yard cyber cops after sabotaging the site from his bedroom to prevent tens of thousands of rival players logging on.
His aim was to rack up the winning score by preventing anyone better than him killing his character. Video game giant Activision was left battling for hours to get the online version of Call Of Duty: Black Ops up and running again.
The college geek crippled the wargame site with a malicious program he wrote - which he sold online so other gamers could cheat. It bombards websites with messages until they grind to a halt under the volume - known as Denial of Service.
A massive hunt by Scotland Yard's Central e-Crime Unit traced the nerd, who is from a respectable family, to Beswick, Greater Manchester - where he was nicked for computer crime.
A police source said last night: "His whole world came crashing down when we knocked on his door at 6am.
"He was still in bed and didn't realise he was in so much trouble."
Call Of Duty: Black Ops is the fastest selling video game of all time, shifting seven million copies within 24 hours of going on sale.
