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Thursday, March 25, 2010
French dude hacks into president’s Twitter account
@Britneyspears and @BarackObama are lucky no real damage was done in their names in the Twittersphere.
A French dude who goes by the tag name Hacker Croll broke into the President Barack Obama’s Twitter account for the thrill of it all, officials says.
“I’m a nice hacker,” Francois Cousteix told France 3 television Thursday.
The 25-year-old, who lives with his parents in central France, was questioned this week on allegations he tapped in Twitter employees’ administrative information so he could look inside famous peoples’ Twitter accounts, the Associated Press reports.
The unemployed hacker also allegedly stole the passwords for accounts belonging to Spears and other celebrities, according to the New York Daily News.
If convicted, he could spend up to two years in prison and be fine the equivalent to $40,068.
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