12 year old admits exchanged "Anonymous" hacking for video games
Posted by: Jon Ben-Mayor on 10/27/2013 09:02 AM
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An unnamed 12 year old Canadian boy has been arrested for hacking government and police websites allegedly exchanging pirated information to Anonymous for video games.
According to the Toronto Sun, the Grade 5 student from the Montreal suburb of Notre-Dame- de-Grâce, whose actions were not politically motivated, traded pirated information to Anonymous for video games, court was told.
He pleaded guilty to three charges related to the hacking of the websites, including those of Montreal police, the Quebec Institute of Public Health, Chilean government and some non-public sites.
Police estimate damage to the sites at $60,000.
The little hacker, whose name can't be published and is said to have been involved with computers since the age of nine, contributed to the crash of some sites and accessed information belonging to users and administrators.
The court was told that the targeted sites suffered three types of attack, including a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, where aggressors bombard a target with requests designed to consume so much of its resources that it becomes unusable.
Court heard the boy used three different computer attacks, one which resulted in a denial of service to those trying to access the websites and flooded servers, making them ineffective.
In another method he would alter information and make it appear as the homepage.
His third tactic involved exploiting security holes in order to access database servers.
The boy is scheduled to be sentenced next month where authorites will provide a more detailed report of his exploits. Game Over.
According to the Toronto Sun, the Grade 5 student from the Montreal suburb of Notre-Dame- de-Grâce, whose actions were not politically motivated, traded pirated information to Anonymous for video games, court was told.He pleaded guilty to three charges related to the hacking of the websites, including those of Montreal police, the Quebec Institute of Public Health, Chilean government and some non-public sites.
Police estimate damage to the sites at $60,000.
The little hacker, whose name can't be published and is said to have been involved with computers since the age of nine, contributed to the crash of some sites and accessed information belonging to users and administrators.
The court was told that the targeted sites suffered three types of attack, including a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, where aggressors bombard a target with requests designed to consume so much of its resources that it becomes unusable.
Court heard the boy used three different computer attacks, one which resulted in a denial of service to those trying to access the websites and flooded servers, making them ineffective.
In another method he would alter information and make it appear as the homepage.
His third tactic involved exploiting security holes in order to access database servers.
The boy is scheduled to be sentenced next month where authorites will provide a more detailed report of his exploits. Game Over.
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