What effects can a SQL Injection have? The researcher security David Levin, 31, of Estero, Florida, turned himself in at his local police station when police issued a warrant for his arrest last week.
Police charged Levin with three counts related to hacking, and Levin spent six hours in jail last Wednesday before being released on $15.000 bond.
But let's see what happened.
According to the police, Levin managed to gain illegal access to three different government websites with SQL Injections. The first was on December 19, 2015, when Levin managed to hack the webσελίδα of Lee County Elections.
The incident went on as he made two more violations at 4 and 31 in January of 2016 when Levin managed to enter the Department of the State Elections.
The authorities argued that Levin did not ask for permission before attempting.
Levin, who is the owner of a security company called Vanguard Cybersecurity, recorded a video with Dan Sinclair, detailing how he managed to break vulnerable websites using a simple SQL Injection.
Dan Sinclair is a candidate for the Election Observatory position in Lee County, Florida. But in the eyes of the current Sharon Harrington election, all of this looked like an acrobatic show in the media, and so he filed a lawsuit against Levin.
The video was posted on YouTube on January 25, and Florida police raided Levin's house on February 8 and seized his computers.
As mentioned above, the authorities claimed that Levin did not ask for permission to conduct penetration tests on any of the state servers and that he was overwhelmed by his demonstration.
The authorities they claim that Levin "Got enough employee usernames and passwords" and that he used the Lee County Supervisor's username and password to gain access to other services.
