The 17 year-old KPN hacker’ remains longer in custody: he should have thirty days in pre-trial detention are held. The last week arrested a teenager from Barendrecht is suspected of the hacking of hundreds of KPN servers.
The boy from Romford was last week on Monday arrested and confessed a day later debt. “About thirty days will be viewed again, or he may be detained,” says spokesman Wim de Bruin of the Public Prosecutor against Tweakers.net.
According to Brown there is in the case, contrary to what the Public Prosecutor previously claimed, no 16-year-old Australian held. Also, he would not suspicious, although a search for him was carried out. Why earlier it was reported that he was arrested, The Brown does not say.
The hacking suspect Barendrechter may have a maximum of three months are kept; you must then take the matter to court. If he is released, the Public Prosecutor more time to investigate the case and they can then go to the right. Since the arrest of the 17-year-old, there are no new arrests made, says Brown. The ORDER would not confirm whether any other suspects are currently investigating is done.
At the beginning of February made a KPN is known that one or more hackers had penetrated its systems. Tweakers.net reported shortly afterwards that the hackers had access to a core router, making them the internet traffic of KPN customers were able to eavesdrop on or manipulate. As far as is known, the hacker that opportunity is not seized.