Successfully Hack Social Networking, Youth 20 Years Arrested

A young 20-year-old German national was reportedly arrested by the German police for committing theft of data from various social networking sites from Germany. Not only steal data - user data from the social networking site, this young man also said to have extorted the social networking site operators. Youth 20 years old from Erlangen, Germany had been detained local time Sunday on charges of extortion. He managed to create a crawler that does crawling on the social networking site StudiVZ, a German social networking site operated by VZ Network. Crawler created by the young man managed to break the security mechanisms StudiVZ and automatically download data - personal data of all users of social networks including name, school, sex, age, photos and other important data.



The young man threatened to sell all of the data - if the data user StudiVZ request of $ 120,000 (1.2 billion dollars) are not met by VZ Network.

But it is not money earned by the young hacker but cold prison bars. This is because VZ Network reported it to the authorities and the German police managed to dismantle the figure behind the online crime and extortion.

VZ Network established since opening in 2005 and to date has operated three German-language social networking site similar to facebook. Jejarngsosial is the SchulerVZ, StudiVZ and MeinVZ with total users of more than 15 million users. StudiVZ is a social networking site specifically for students.

For information, facebook site StudiVZ had demanded this year because they are copying the features and look of facebook. This is what successful websites hacked and is now restyled by VZ Network security level to avoid the same thing happening again. Things - things like this remind us should be - careful while sharing our personal information on social networking sites. This is because it is possible that after a while the popular social networking site facebook and friendster classmates will also experience the same thing.

Prevention is better than cure .. be - careful when sharing data and personal information on social networking sites before any party - those who use or misuse of data - personal data.