The 17-year-old boy from Rotterdam who is suspected of hundreds of servers of the telecom provider KPN to have cracked, is released. He may, however, in anticipation of a possible lawsuit use the internet.
That reports REUTERS. The request for the 17-year-old defendant from custody to release them was made by his lawyer and submitted to the chambers of the court in Rotterdam. The court last request for an end to the custody. Also the Public Prosecutor gave his blessing to the release of the defendant. The court suggested, however, there is a requirement that the boy, who at the end of march was held after a research of the National bureau of Investigation, makes no use of the internet in anticipation of a probable lawsuit.
It suspects the 17-year-old resident of Barendrecht that he will have access to KPN servers had obtained by making use of a vulnerability. On a few hundred servers he would have the highest access rights have been obtained. The defendant would also be malware on the telecom systems have been installed. In addition, the hacker is suspected to have traded in stolen credit cards and attacking the servers of several foreign universities.