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.<\/p>\n
He was in police custody in the city of Clermont-Ferrand.<\/p>\n
The hacker had also attacked Facebook and email accounts operated by Google, the police source said, adding that he had never attempted to profit financially from his hacking activities.<\/p>\n
He had managed to secure Twitter’s administrator codes and was able to create, modify or delete accounts at will, the source said, adding that the hacker set up a blog to share his discoveries.<\/p>\n
The French hacker was known to police here for minor scams that had netted 15,000 euros (20,000 dollars), according to the police source.<\/p>\n
The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) alerted French authorities to his presence on French territory in July last year.<\/p>\n
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