the Rumors that Russia was behind the increased in strength of the largest, well known hackerangrepet in Germany against the well known and public people.
When your Twitter account with the username “@_Orbit” were suddenly suspended and removed at christmas in shot attention speed.
the Account had an advent calendar with a new hatch every day. Behind each luke was personal information – including credit card number, bank details and private photos of around 1,000 politicians, officials, celebrities and journalists.
on Tuesday, the “punctured” German police rumor: the advent calendar with “innbruddsopplysninger” was made at home in his room of a 20 year old, German student in the small town of Homberg (Ohm) in the state of Hesse in the middle of Germany.
Parents house
Chancellor Angela Merkel and federal president Frank-Walter Steinmeier are among the politicians who have put out private data by snooping on the inside of datamuren.
the Boss herself, Angela Merkel, is among those who have released it all away with only e-mail addresses and letters in the embets official capacity.
At a press conference in Wiesbaden, the enlightened German police that they had gone to the search warrant and the arrest of 20-year-old last Sunday at home in their parents ‘ house.
Irritation of the over statements
Police held back how a hacker has operated for not to tirre other. They content themselves with saying that the methods were “sophisticated” and that the 20-year-old has “very high computer skills” despite the fact that it is not the subject he is studying.
the Police admitted that he has come through many security holes, and that the exposure will speed the work of data security in Germany.
According to police, he has operated on your own out from the “irritation” over what the victims of the hackerangrepene has stated.
According to the German media didn’t tell the police what he has irritated her over.
Regardless of a Russian backdrop, have the rumors been about the political motives behind the hackers.
the Outer right got away
Politicians from the outer right-party AfD (Alternative for Germany) is the only thing that has not been revealing private details.
But police said at the press conference that the 20-year-old does not have the “no entries to Russia or China”.
About why the AfD – the third largest party in the last election – were saved, the police believed the 20-åringens explanation:
The name had I not on the screen.
And he was released after searches and questioning because he does not pose any danger for the nation’s security and because he should have admitted everything.
According to the German media were correspondence with a known 19-year-old German hacker one of the traces that led police to his room in Hesse.
social-media-to 20-year-old have figured also under the signature of “Good”.
most of the “gifts” in the advent calendar is taken out behind the state sikkerhetsmurer. Police closer look at 60 of the hackerangrepene in private data stores.
