At least 14 suspects have been reportedly arrested on both sides of the Atlantic for their alleged hack attacks on PayPal website to punish it for withdrawing service to whistleblower website WikiLeaks. More arrests have been made targeted at Anonymous, LulzSec and other hacker groups.

In the US, the arrests took place in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico and Ohio.

The suspects are in the age from 20 to 42, though most of them are believed to be young.

The AFP and FoxNews have both reported that the action was taken on Tuesday in a joint international operation.

The reports said that FBI is executing over 35 search warrants in the US over several other cyber attacks.

In the US, two arrests were made for cyber crime. The Dutch National Police Agency arrested four , while in the UK, a 16-year-old was arrested by Scotland Yard.

The AFP reported, citing an official familiar with the matter, that the teenager arrested in the UK is suspected to be a connected to the hacker group Lulz Security (LulzSec).

FoxNews reported, "More than 10 FBI agents arrived at the Baldwin, N.Y., home of Giordani Jordan with a search warrant for computers and computer-related accessories, removing at least one laptop from the premises."

An official told FoxNews that authorities have identified Jordan’s computer as allegedly being used in a coordinated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack several times.

The Guardian reported that over 30 people suspected to be connected to Anonymous have been arrested.in raids carried out across the world including Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey.

Online hactivist group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for hack attacks against several high profile websites including Visa and Mastercard.

Last month, it joined its offshoot hacker group LulzSec to declare a war on government agencies and organisations across the world.

LulzSec is infamous for its hack attacks on Sony, Nintendo, FoxNews and InfraGard.

LulzSec had recently claimed that it would be disbanding to avoid a crackdown on members and heightened scrutiny by authorities.

But this week it hacked Rupert Murdoch owned The Sun. The group has threatened that it would release a cache of emails belonging to Murdoch.

In The Sun hack attack, LulzSec dared authorities to take action against the members of the hacker group.

LulzSec challenged, "Arrest us. We dare you. We are the unstoppable hacking generation…."