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15-year-old arrested for hacking 259 companies

• paulhauggis 15y ago
  "He didn’t seem to target specific types of industries: everything from sports companies, to tourism services, to adult entertainment, to search services were attacked." It's because he didn't have a choice. It's "random" because it was what his scanner picked up. "The young man reportedly admitted to being responsible, saying that he was bored and wanted to prove himself. He was described as anti-social, and so looked to the online world for praise and affirmation, possibly being inspired by reports about the hacktivist group Anonymous." How does this "prove" anything? It takes no balls and nearly no skills to run a scanner and deface a website. "Eventually, however, ACK!3STX’s anonymizing software failed him and his IP address was visible to BMI’s C4 (Cyber Crime Competence Centre) unit" Probably because he didn't actually know how it worked.