On Tuesday, a French hacker was arrested on a charge of hacking Twitter accounts belonging to notable people, for example Barack Obama. He was arrested after a long operation which lasted for months and was carried by the French police and FBI.
The unemployed 25-year-old hacked into accounts probably by gaining access to Twitter's administrator account by firstly hacking administrator's e-mail account.
He was questioned by the police and then released. The investigation also revealed that he didn't have specialist training and he didn't do any damage. He will have court trial on 24 June and he can be sentenced by the French law for a two-year imprisonment.
I think that he is not very talented person, because the article says that he simply guessed password. On the other hand, his knowledge may be used by Twitter and other websites to improve security and safety of the confidential information on internal servers. Although he just guessed the password, it is still impressive, because he didn't have training.
Source: BBC News
He was questioned by the police and then released. The investigation also revealed that he didn't have specialist training and he didn't do any damage. He will have court trial on 24 June and he can be sentenced by the French law for a two-year imprisonment.
I think that he is not very talented person, because the article says that he simply guessed password. On the other hand, his knowledge may be used by Twitter and other websites to improve security and safety of the confidential information on internal servers. Although he just guessed the password, it is still impressive, because he didn't have training.
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