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Multinational swoop nets two hackers


From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:12:14 -0500 (CDT)

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/multinational-swoop-nets-two-hackers

Japan Today
March 30, 2012

SEOUL - Two young hackers have been arrested in the Netherlands and Australia in a multinational operation prompted by tips from a South Korean student, police said Thursday.

A 17-year-old Dutch boy and an Australian teenager were arrested last week in their own countries on suspicion of hacking into servers in nine nations, South Korea’s Cyber Terror Response Center said in a statement.

The center, part of the National Police Agency, said four Dutch investigators visited Seoul in February after a college student there reported a hacking case involving the server of Dutch telecom firm KPN.

The student told investigators he had read a message in his university chatroom in which the writer claimed to have hacked into KPN.

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