French Hacker Arrested After Bragging On TV

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @05:10PM from the foot-in-mouth-disease dept.

Orome1 writes "A French hacker has effectually tied a noose around his own neck when he bragged about hacking into the systems of a big government contractor on national TV. He participated in a television program called Further investigation, and he said — and demonstrated — that he has gained access to computers belonging to the French Army and Thales Group, a French company that provides information systems and services for the aerospace, defense, and security markets. He was arrested 6 days after the program was aired. The police discovered on his computer a great number of compromised credit card and bank account data."

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Re:Meh? by Alarash · 2011-04-13 18:15 · Score: 4, Informative

I live in France so we have a little more details. He got caught because one of his username on some website in the background wasn't properly/entirely blurred by the TV journalists. Following that lead, the investigators caught him. Oops!