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15-Year-Old Arrested For Hacking 259 Companies
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)."
System Operator arrested for leaving the computer system of the company he worked for vulnerable for attacks by kids. Oh wait...
Me
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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A real hacker would break into 256 companies, not 259... What was he thinking?
Unless he actually broke into 512 or 1024 companies.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
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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He was probably aiming for 1337 companies...
First, you use a made-up word...
Care to give an example of a word that is not made-up?
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Actually I believe he was going for 640 companies broken into, and that really ought to be enough for anyone.