Donncha O'Cearbhaill

Donncha O'Cearbhaill is an Irish university student. His father is John Carroll, an independent Offaly county councillor.

In 2011 he won an Irish Olympiad medal in the field of computer science, while attending St. Brendan's Community School.

In September 2011 he was questioned by Gardaí about the compromising of the Fine Gael website.

On March 6, 2012 he was arrested in relation to the leak of a January 17 conference call between the FBI and the UK Serious Organised Crime Agency. He was released after 24 hours without charge.

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{{Personal| According to the FBI, this 19-year-old freshman at Trinity College Dublin is one of the top five most wanted hackers in the world. Well, he was; now that he’s been arrested he’s not really “wanted” anymore. The Feds contend the young man is a VIP member of the Anonymous and LulzSec hacking groups that have already been mentioned and whose targets have included the FBI, the U.S. Senate, and Sony (in the Hotz backlash). It seems “Palladium” (O’Cearbhaill) took the liberty of listening in on a conference call between the FBI and several international police forces who were discussing their investigations of the hacking groups. He could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison if convicted for that hack alone.