Great Hack: a 20-Year-old acted out of Anger about a policy

after The large-scale data theft in the case of German politicians and other Celebrities arrested 20-year-old Suspect has acted according to the investigation from Trouble. And he did this alone, as he confessed.

The man had indicated, "out of anger over public Comments by the affected politicians, journalists and public figures acted," said the Federal criminal police office (BKA) on Tuesday in Wiesbaden.

Computer hidden

The young man was arrested on Sunday in the Federal state of Hesse. In interviews he had given to the "allegations made against him fully," said the BKA. In addition, he had made "their own offences, in addition to education assistance". In the absence of grounds for Detention, he had been on Monday evening and again on free foot.

The search of the seized evidence such as computers and data carriers were evaluated in a comprehensive manner. A Computer of the Suspect aside, I managed to had been found, it was said.

Seehofer congratulated the security agencies

The data theft on a large scale had become known at the end of last week. Were affected, according to the Federal Ministry of the interior, numerous politicians, journalists, and other personalities of public life. The Department spoke on Monday of 50 to 60 serious cases, as well as about a thousand other, which go in accordance with the previous findings of predominantly pure contact details.

The German interior Minister, Horst Seehofer, congratulated the security agencies to your fast success. "Through the good cooperation of the Central Agency for Internet crime at the General Prosecutor's office of Frankfurt am Main, the German Federal criminal police office, the Federal office for security in information technology, and the national police authorities of the alleged offender was identified quickly," said Seehofer in Berlin on Tuesday. (sep/afp)

Created: 08.01.2019, 12:25 PM