The man, known by his online pseudonym is Hacker Croll, was arrested on Tuesday in central France, where he lives with his parents. French police and FBI agents had been tracking him for months.
…Investigators said Hacker Croll used common sense more than hacking skills to
penetrate the micro-blogging website by simply guessing users’ passwords. He
did so by working them out from information on blogs or online pages users
had created about themselves, police said.He struck lucky by answering the “secret question” on web-based
email accounts, such as a user’s maiden name or the name of his pet, to gain
access to Twitter passwords.But he did not profit financially from his activities on Twitter, a
micro-blogging service on which users can send out messages of 140
characters or less to registered followers.“He was a young man spending time on the internet. He acted as a result
of a bet, out of the arrogance of the hacker. He is the type who likes to
claim responsibility for what he has done,” said the local prosecutor,
Jean-Yves Coquillat.Hacking into a database is a crime in France and carries a maximum two-year
prison sentence.The man has been released on bail and…
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