The KPN-hacker saw his actions as a kwajongensstreek. That thinks it is the team leader of the High Tech Crime Team of the police. “I do not think that he the consequences of his actions for the survey, while half the country in turmoil was,” says Pim Takkenberg.
The KPN-hacker, a then 17-year-old from Barendrecht, the netherlands, was one of those hobbyists that are mainly for fun to hacking was. This is evident from a reconstruction of this month in the politievakblad 24/7 appears. In that reconstruction says Takkenberg: “Others save football pictures, he saved so many and so great potential hacks.”
The hacker broke last year on hundreds of servers of KPN. Furthermore, he was, in theory, been able to direct traffic from KPN customers to intercept, such as Tweakers previously reported. He also had the fixed network can manipulate, allowing access to the emergency number 112 in the case would have been. That he has not done. “He has malware installed on the servers, and an Australian, the login data of the KPN servers handed over”, emphasizes Takkenberg opposite Tweakers, to indicate that his intentions are certainly not pure.
Despite the fact that the attacker the evil of his actions themselves may not be realized, it was code red at the time that the hack came out, it appears from the reconstruction in the politievakblad. A detective says to the magazine: “Thoughts fly through your head: how bad is it, will the phone and internet traffic in the Netherlands be disturbed? Is the internet shut down? Then no one can pin, so no messages to pay?”
The hacker, who has known, is in may for the court and the KPN case is currently still pending. His trial is behind closed doors, because he is a minor at the time of the crime. From the reconstruction shows that the hacker is five weeks long, is heard. The hacker could be arrested, thanks to a combination of carelessness and pride: he bragged in a conversation with a South Korean student about his hacks. That student told KPN via Twitter, after which the police were called. The nickname that the Barendrechter used in the conversation with the student, he drew again later. Thanks to a internettap noticed the police, then the police on 20 march 2012, a raid did, and the attacker is arrested.
From the reconstruction in the 24/7 show that the Barendrechter entered servers of KPN because of the automatic updates failed. Previously, we showed that the unsafe software are the servers of KPN, the tie did. The hacker knew themselves also provide access to other computer systems, among others, of universities, including the South Korean university, where the countermeasures studied. What are the organizations that the hacker in addition to the universities and KPN I, is unclear.