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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. Re:Not hacking by Tarlus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The teenager used various hacking tools widely available on the Internet, including software that helped him remain anonymous.

    Nothing more than a script kiddie.

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  2. Re:Not hacking by mcgrew · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Citation? because the AC is correct. I understand how muggles confuse nerd terms, but they've taken OUR word for modifying hardware or writing quick-and-dirty single-use code and we let the muggles mangle the meaning of OUR word! As someone already pointed out, he's not a "hacker", he's a script kiddie. The hackers wrote the code he used for his cyberburglary and cybervandalism.

    I never thought I'd see the day when we would be acceptable, let alone the day normal people pretend to be us.

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