Swiss police arrest suspected Davos hacker

Reports from Switzerland say police have arrested one of the hackers who broke into the computer system used by the World Economic Forum in Davos last month.

The hackers managed to penetrate the system and steal confidential information about some of the participants, among them the head of the Microsoft company, Bill Gates, and the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat.

They sent the unused data -- which included credit card details and private phone numbers -- to a Swiss paper, saying they had hacked into the system in protest against the powerful and those in power.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service