Cameron Lacroix, a hacker mentioned in and Wikipedia, apologized for publishing personal celebrity photos on the internet nine years ago. Among them were photos from the Paris Hilton phone. The hacker wanted to publicly apologize shortly before his four-year sentence in a federal jail, for stealing credit card numbers, falsifying grades at the Bristol Community College and causing damage to Twitter which cost 200,000 dollars
Start it Hacking at 11 and 16 he was sentenced to 11 months in a penitentiary
According to NBC News, Lacroix, from New Bedford, Massachusetts, now realizes the consequences of the personal information he released. "Paris, I'm sorry I posted your photos online," he said. "I should never have done that. I wish it had never happened. "
Until this age, Lacroix has participated in many hacking ενέργειες, συμπεριλαμβανομένων κλοπές πιστωτικών και χρεωστικών καρτών, προσωπικών δεδομένων, παραβίασεις λογαριασμών στο Twitter. Η διαρροή των φωτογραφιών της Paris Hilton πραγματοποιήθηκε το 2005, όταν ο χάκερ ήταν έφηβος. Κατάφερε να σπάσει στο τηλέφωνο της Paris Ηilton και να διαρρεύσει στο διαδίκτυο προσωπικές επαφές, μηνύματα ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου, καθώς και γυμνές φωτογραφίες της. Η πράξη πραγματοποιήθηκε μέσω επίθεσης στην ιστοσελίδα of T-Mobile, the institution to which Paris Hilton was a member. For this reason, Lacroix was sentenced to 11 month imprisonment for a minors' penitentiary federal detention facility. It was just 16 years old then. However, the list of cyber attacks in which they participated does not begin or end with it.
His criminal past and the job at the FBI
Lacroix is also known for illegality invasion on Burger King's Twitter account – Where he changed the restaurant's logo to that of McDonalds. Among the databases he illegally accessed were federal agency databases. According to the authorities, the damage caused by the hacker is estimated at around 1 million dollars / €800,000.
However, he promised that when he gets out of jail, he will change his whitehat (whitehat) hat and would like to help all the companies he deceived. He could also work with the FBI for his knowledge to help capture cyber criminals.
