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15-Year-Old Arrested For Hacking 259 Companies

Posted by samzenpus on from the needs-more-homework dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Austrian police have arrested a 15-year-old student suspected of hacking into 259 companies across the span of three months. Authorities allege the suspect scanned the Internet for vulnerabilities and bugs in websites and databases that he could then exploit. As soon as he was questioned, the young boy confessed to the attacks, according to Austria's Federal Criminal Police Office (BMI)."

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  1. System Operator arrested by Ranx · · Score: 5, Funny

    System Operator arrested for leaving the computer system of the company he worked for vulnerable for attacks by kids. Oh wait...

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  2. Re:Not hacking by jellomizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    A real hacker would break into 256 companies, not 259... What was he thinking?
    Unless he actually broke into 512 or 1024 companies.

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  3. Re:Not hacking by Nrrqshrr · · Score: 5, Funny

    He was probably aiming for 1337 companies...

  4. Re:Not hacking by amRadioHed · · Score: 5, Funny

    First, you use a made-up word...

    Care to give an example of a word that is not made-up?

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  5. Re:Not hacking by hellkyng · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually I believe he was going for 640 companies broken into, and that really ought to be enough for anyone.