On the BBC news site they have this story.

An attempt to hack into the website of the Disasters and Emergency Committee (DEC) that was set up after the Asian tsunami, is being investigated.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police's Computer Crime Unit have begun an inquiry after BT blocked the attempt on New Year's Eve.
A 28-year-old man from east London was arrested and released on bail in connection with alleged offences.
Police are examining computer equipment seized during a search.

But on BoingBoing it reads like this:

A Londonder (sic) made a tsnuami-relief donation using lynx -- a text-based browser used by the blind, Unix-users and others -- on Sun's Solaris operating system. The site-operator decided that this "unusual" event in the system log indicated a hack-attempt, and the police broke down the donor's door and arrested him. From a mailing list:

For donating to a Tsunami appeal using Lynx on Solaris 10. BT [British Telecom] who run the donation management system misread an access log and saw hmm thats a non standard browser not identifying it's type and it's doing strange things. Trace that IP. Arrest that hacker.
Armed police, a van, a police cell and national news later the police have gone in SWAT styley and arrested someone having their lunch.
Out on bail till next week and preparing to make a lot of very bad PR for BT and the Police....
So just goes to show if you use anything other than Firefox or IE and you rely on someone else to interogate access logs or IDS logs you too could be sitting in a paper suit in a cell :(

I'm thinking that more people should be using lynx, after all it doesn't suffer all those irritating pop-ups and animated advertisements.
So why the hell are we making browsers more & more complicated, just so that we can see the content of a site, when lynx has been there all along!?
*nix users should make a point of cranking up lynx on a daily basis. The NZHerald's site quickly becomes quite easy to use...