Suspected UK hacker 'broke into US defence department'

The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has mounted a "strike week" against suspected hackers resulting in 56 arrests.

In total, 25 separate operations were carried out across the UK.

Separately, West Midlands police arrested a 23-year-old man in Sutton Coldfield who is believed to have been involved in breaking into the network of the US defence department.

The hackers behind that attack stole contact information for about 800 people and data on the network's internal architecture was also pilfered.

Rebecca Williams reports.