French hacker who sabotaged the account of President Barack Obama in one of his attacks on the Twitter online social network, poses behind a mouse on March 25, 2010 at his home in Beaumont, central France. The man was arrested on March 23 by French police in the Puy-de-Dome region after an operation conducted jointly with US agents from the FBI that lasted several months, and released the day after.
Frenchman has been arrested for exploiting the Twitter accounts of President Barack Obama and singer Britney Spears. The 25-year-old man was able to gain access to passwords of Twitter administrators and used them to try to compromise the twitter accounts of U.S. politicians and popular hollywood stars.
by Brandon Dimmel
Earlier he has carried out minor internet fraud but in this case was driven by the thrill of the challenge and instead of gaining access to the sensitive information he was more interested in the private life of Obama and britney Spears.
The suspect, also known as “Hacker Croll”, is not a trained hacker and he gained twitter access by simply guessing users’ passwords, as reported by the BBC. But in 2009 also, he managed to hack several Twitter accounts including several high profile celebrities and Twitter’s internal corporate documents stored in a Google Apps account.
Captain Adeline Champagnat, a senior member of the police cyber crimes unit said:
His aim wasn’t to make money. It was simply to show that he was able to access accounts of Twitter members. And the best proof of that is that he did screen grabs of certain confidential data which he tried to post on blogs that are reserved for pirates or hackers.
If convicted for illegally accessing dozens of Twitter and Facebook pages, the hacker may face up to two years in prison.
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