A weiter in the German federal police came into being after a police officer spyware on the computer of his daughter. A friend of the daughter discovered the spyware and hackte the pc of the agent, writes a German magazine.
The senior police officer placed a trojan on the computer of his daughter to her activities in the holes to keep. A hacker who was a friend of his daughter discovered the trojan, however, and urged the private computer of the policeman within, and possibly out of revenge. There he discovered that the agent is sensitive politiemail on his private computer preserved, writes Der Spiegel.
With the help of these e-mails did he and other hackers have managed to a system of the German federal police to log in. They published a part of the information which they seized on the internet. These include location information of the suspects, who were followed. As a result of the hack had to have the server be disabled, which, among other things, the automated tracking of suspects was no longer possible.
The German police have not confirmed that the two incidents with each other. It was previously a 23-year-old man arrested on suspicion of the hack. It is unclear what spyware the German agent would have used. Possible the to spyware that in behalf of the German government was developed. That is, according to critics, badly designed and illegal.