Hacker arrested after posting on Twitter
Contributed by: Email on 04/19/2012 09:01 AM
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A member of Anonymous Internet has been arrested and put in detention after the 21 year old boasted on Twitter about his involvement in the hack of the Utah Chief of Police Association and the Salt Lake City Police Department.
John Anthony Borell III was charged with two counts of computer intrusion after using a computer program to launch an SQL injection attach that compromised the websites of the Utah Chiefs of Police and the SLCPD in January. This, according to a grand jury indictment unsealed on April 14th.
Had Borell not taken credit for the attack on Twitter, he might have gotten away with it. The posting on his account ( handle: @ItsKahuna ) gave the admin username and password combination of the Utah Chiefs of Police Association and another message berating “Whoever removed the Megaupload image from (the Chiefs of Police Association Web site) and replaced it with their nick when I hacked it for a purpose.” Borell followed up on those tweets by taking credit for the hacking. He also allegedly published much of the information he gathered in his attack to the text sharing site Pastebin.
A search warrant was given to Twitter who in turn produced an IP audit. Borell was arrested in late March.
BorellÂ’s indictment was unsealed on the same day as CabinCr3w hacker, Higinio Ochoa was arrested for his alleged involvement in a hack of the Texas Department of Public Safety. CabinCr3w is named in the Borell indictment as part of a hacker collective loosely associated with Anonymous, but with a more well-defined membership and a history of hacking law enforcement organizations.
John Anthony Borell III was charged with two counts of computer intrusion after using a computer program to launch an SQL injection attach that compromised the websites of the Utah Chiefs of Police and the SLCPD in January. This, according to a grand jury indictment unsealed on April 14th.
Had Borell not taken credit for the attack on Twitter, he might have gotten away with it. The posting on his account ( handle: @ItsKahuna ) gave the admin username and password combination of the Utah Chiefs of Police Association and another message berating “Whoever removed the Megaupload image from (the Chiefs of Police Association Web site) and replaced it with their nick when I hacked it for a purpose.” Borell followed up on those tweets by taking credit for the hacking. He also allegedly published much of the information he gathered in his attack to the text sharing site Pastebin.
A search warrant was given to Twitter who in turn produced an IP audit. Borell was arrested in late March.
BorellÂ’s indictment was unsealed on the same day as CabinCr3w hacker, Higinio Ochoa was arrested for his alleged involvement in a hack of the Texas Department of Public Safety. CabinCr3w is named in the Borell indictment as part of a hacker collective loosely associated with Anonymous, but with a more well-defined membership and a history of hacking law enforcement organizations.
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