{"id":471765,"date":"2010-03-25T14:52:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T18:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=98220"},"modified":"2010-03-25T14:52:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T18:52:23","slug":"britney-spears-obama-twitter-hacker-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/471765","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears, Obama Twitter Hacker Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Britney-Spears-Twitter-Hacked.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Britney Spears Twitter Hacked\" width=\"410\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-78745\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Frenchman who has admitted to hacking into the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704094104575143391819054502.html?mod=e2tw\">Twitter accounts<\/a> of prominent figures, such as Britney Spears, Lily Allen, and the President of the United States, was arrested in Clermont-Ferrand this week.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-98220\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The unemployed 24-year-old, who has not been named, went by the username &#8220;Hacker Croll&#8221; and copped to his crimes after being quizzed by local cops and FBI agents. He has no degree, lives with his parents, and surprisingly managed to hack into accounts with little computer training.<\/p>\n<p>Using the administrator logins, Hacker Croll looked at Twitter details of Barack Obama, Lily, Britney and other personalities and was able to see information such as IP addresses, when they were last connected and when they signed up.<\/p>\n<p>The hacker has been released on bond and will face trial on June 24. He faces up to two years in prison and a $40,000 if convicted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UR9mxe3J9op_duRsGm8UaH3FHd4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UR9mxe3J9op_duRsGm8UaH3FHd4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UR9mxe3J9op_duRsGm8UaH3FHd4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UR9mxe3J9op_duRsGm8UaH3FHd4\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Frenchman who has admitted to hacking into the Twitter accounts of prominent figures, such as Britney Spears, Lily Allen, and the President of the United States, was arrested in Clermont-Ferrand this week. The unemployed 24-year-old, who has not been named, went by the username &#8220;Hacker Croll&#8221; and copped to his crimes after being quizzed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}