The Greek Police have apprehended and arrested an 18 year old hacker suspected of breaking into sites such as Interpol, the FBI, and numbers of US state agencies. The unidentified hacker lives with his mother in a Agios Dimitrios, a district of Athens, had claimed he has broken into the Interpol site once before at the mere age of 15 years old.
The head of Greece's cybercrime squad Manolis Sfakianakis is quoted as saying on NET; "This unnamed hacker has taken many strikes out all over the world from his house" Manolis also states that Interpol is the basic one, next to other US agencies, he carried out these attacks by himself, but has world with others before.
This young hacker went by the handle 'nsplitter' had has put his hands into some serious cyber crime activities such as credit card fraud, and e-banking data through toolbars downloaded by internet users, and generated cloned cards to make unauthorised ATM withdrawals.
Reports indicate the young hacker has been released by Greek Police, pending further investigation.
The AFP newswire, says that, during his arrest on Wednesday, police executed a search warrant on his home and seized almost 8,000 euros, $300, 130 blank cards, laptops, external drives and a router. He used his illegal funds to invest in the stock market.
"If found guilty of all charges, he faces a prison sentence of at least five years".
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Hackers attacked IMF with "Sophisticated cyberattack"
The International Monetary Fund also known as the "IMF" has suffered a major blow by hackers.
The organization, made headlines when following the arrest and resignation of it's boss Dominque Strauss-Kahn (He was arrested for sexual assault has been as a trampoline for malware attacks.) there have been attempts to oversee the financial troubles around the world, promote economic development.
According to the New York Times according to sources within the IMF there has in face been a "major breach of security" this attack was serious enough to cut the connection of the computer linking between the IMF and its near neighbor in Washington, World Bank.
Spokesman for the World Bank reported to the New York Times; ""Disconnection was taken out of an abundance of caution, until the nature of the attack was understood." The link to the world bank has since been restored and there have been no reported attacks on the World Bank.
Bloomberg claimed to have gotten its hands on some internal emails and memos distributed to IMF staff informing them there computer systems had been compromised.
The organization, made headlines when following the arrest and resignation of it's boss Dominque Strauss-Kahn (He was arrested for sexual assault has been as a trampoline for malware attacks.) there have been attempts to oversee the financial troubles around the world, promote economic development.
According to the New York Times according to sources within the IMF there has in face been a "major breach of security" this attack was serious enough to cut the connection of the computer linking between the IMF and its near neighbor in Washington, World Bank.
Spokesman for the World Bank reported to the New York Times; ""Disconnection was taken out of an abundance of caution, until the nature of the attack was understood." The link to the world bank has since been restored and there have been no reported attacks on the World Bank.
Bloomberg claimed to have gotten its hands on some internal emails and memos distributed to IMF staff informing them there computer systems had been compromised.
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