15-Year-Old Arrested For Hacking 259 Companies 153
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)."
Not surprised (Score:2, Funny)
Austria is a former penal colony. All their citizens are descended from criminals.
System Operator arrested (Score:5, Funny)
System Operator arrested for leaving the computer system of the company he worked for vulnerable for attacks by kids. Oh wait...
Re:Not hacking (Score:5, Funny)
A real hacker would break into 256 companies, not 259... What was he thinking?
Unless he actually broke into 512 or 1024 companies.
Re:Brilliant (Score:5, Funny)
Ha ha! Spelling Nazi fail.
Re:System Operator arrested (Score:4, Funny)
No. We don't arrest bankers, silly. We give them golden parachutes.
8bit hacking (Score:4, Funny)
See, the problem was that he is only an 8-bit hacker. He should have stopped at 256 companies or upgraded to 16-bit.
It's the overflows that got him :(
Re:Not hacking (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not hacking (Score:5, Funny)
First, you use a made-up word...
Care to give an example of a word that is not made-up?
Re:Not hacking (Score:4, Funny)
Well, there are only a few of those. That's why they're 1337. Duh.
Re:Not hacking (Score:4, Funny)
Bruce Perens was addressing a bunch of geeks once and somebody asked him to use the word cracker instead of hacker when referring to computer criminals. Bruce replied "I refuse to use the word cracker because it's insulting to georgian-americans, and will continue to use the phrase computer criminals". I laughed my ass off, but he was right.
Re:Not hacking (Score:5, Funny)
Actually I believe he was going for 640 companies broken into, and that really ought to be enough for anyone.
Re:Not hacking (Score:3, Funny)
because you always use the word muggles incorrectly.