Paris:
French police have arrested a hacker who sabotaged the account of US President Barack Obama in one of his attacks on the wildly popular micro-blogging site Twitter.
The unemployed 25-year-old, who used the pseudonym "Hacker Croll", was arrested in the Puy-de-Dome region of central France after an operation conducted jointly with US agents from the FBI that lasted several months.
He was in police custody in the nearby city of Clermont-Ferrand.
The hacker had also attacked Facebook and email accounts operated by Google and other providers, the police said, adding that he had never attempted to profit financially from his hacking activities.
He had managed to secure Twitter's administrator codes and was able to create, modify or delete accounts at will, police source said, adding that the hacker also set up a blog to share his discoveries.
The FBI alerted French authorities to his presence on French territory in July last year.
Four FBI agents worked with French police for several months to track down "Hacker Croll" and stop the attacks on Twitter, which has millions of users across the world.
The unemployed 25-year-old, who used the pseudonym "Hacker Croll", was arrested in the Puy-de-Dome region of central France after an operation conducted jointly with US agents from the FBI that lasted several months.
He was in police custody in the nearby city of Clermont-Ferrand.
The hacker had also attacked Facebook and email accounts operated by Google and other providers, the police said, adding that he had never attempted to profit financially from his hacking activities.
He had managed to secure Twitter's administrator codes and was able to create, modify or delete accounts at will, police source said, adding that the hacker also set up a blog to share his discoveries.
The FBI alerted French authorities to his presence on French territory in July last year.
Four FBI agents worked with French police for several months to track down "Hacker Croll" and stop the attacks on Twitter, which has millions of users across the world.
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