Tuesday, April 12, 2011

A suspected hacker indicted after a broadcast of "further investigation"

Internet, Wikileaks, Transparency - Supplement ... partipirate by The Paris prosecutor opened a criminal investigation for fraud against a young man who boasted on television to have penetrated the computer systems group Thales. Arrested on April 7 in Paris, the alleged attacker was taken into custody.

Thales had complained after the recent airing of a program "further investigation" on France 2, in which the young man had boasted of being returned to the company intranet and sites of the army. The individual has been indicted for fraudulent access to such a system of automatic data processing, theft and embezzlement.

During police custody, investigators also discovered hundreds of credit card numbers and bank details that the hacker would have earned on illegal web sites, the source said. The hacker has admitted using them to make purchases for himself and for others. Following this discovery, he was indicted for organized fraud.

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