Timothy Justen French, a member of the notorious hacking group NullCrew, has pleaded guilty to one of the charges against him. The charge concerns destruction of a protected person computer without a license, and faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250.000 fine.
Justen French is 21 years old, from Morristown, Tennessee, and was arrested by the FBI on 11 June of 2014 at his family home. Authorities accused him of involvement in cyber attacks against Bell Canada, Comcast, and the Ministry Defense of the United Kingdom, as a member of the NullCrew hacking group.
French was also known online as "Orbit," "Orbit_g1rl," "c0rps3.", "Rootcrysis," and "crysis."
Six days after the capture of French, the rest of NullCrew members published a text at Pastebin. NullCrew calls French "script kiddie,” επειδή αγνόησε τις συμβουλές από παλαιότερα μέλη να διαγράψει IDS που χρησιμοποιούσε πριν την ένταξη του στο hacking group.
Obviously, French did not delete the usernames it used before, and continued to use Skype for hacking talks!
Also as if all that wasn't enough, he wasn't using a VPN connection to hide his real IP. According to the statements given by the FBI after his arrest, investigators were able to trace him to the IP address used to intercept data from Bell Canada.
According to the authorities the attack was made by the connection he had in his home!
Our question is why did the older members of the team accept "hackers" like Orbit?