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The hacker Alcasec arrested for the attack and theft of data to the Judiciary


The hacker Alcasec arrested for the attack and theft of data to the Judiciary



A few months ago we told you how Treasury suffered a cyberattack that left the services in our country down for a few hours. This attack, which really originated in the judiciarycould constitute a felony against a high-ranking agency of the nation and a crime of discovery, since it was done with data from 500,000 users that were not collected en masse, but rather they were chosen conscientiously. As a result of this research and in a somewhat curious way, the attacker has been arrested and placed in provisional prison thanks to your own confession.

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This hacker has been put in prison this Monday accused of this attack on the judiciary and where he also obtained data from up to 50,000 police officers. The Hacker confessed to this crime in a podcastwhich was what motivated the police to stop this 19 year oldalthough they were already after him for some time, continuing the course of the investigation and waiting for the right moment.

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José Luis Huertas, known as Alcasecboasted of other facts such as that of have the telephone number of King Emeritus or an own database with information on telephone numbers, homes, cards, etc. During his arrest they found about $550,000 in cryptocurrency, the result of the sale of data to other users who are also being investigated. In this way, Alcasec enters prison, after have gone through some juvenile centers when he began his adventures as a hacker as a minor.

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Article Editor: Juan Antonio Soto

Juan Antonio Soto

I am a Computer Engineer and my specialty is automation and robotics. My passion for hardware began at the age of 14 when I gutted my first computer: a 386 DX 40 with 4MB of RAM and a 210MB hard drive. I continue to give free rein to my passion in the technical articles that I write at Geeknetic. I spend most of my free time playing video games, contemporary and retro, on the 20+ consoles I own, in addition to the PC.

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