Security forces’ website infiltrated by an IT man

A judge has last week remanded in custody a 25 year old internet café owner in the region of Ain M’lila (eastern Algeria), found guilty of hacking security forces’ sites.

• Several individuals, though to be linked to the case including two policemen, were called up by the judge for further investigations.
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• First elements of the inquiry carried out by a cyber criminality experts’ unit more than a month to the outbreak of the scandal, revealed that an unidentified source was hacking the security forces’ official site and posting intelligence on the internet.
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• INTERPOL has immediately reacted to the discovery of the case and informed the relevant security services to act accordingly, corroborating sources revealed.
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• The culprit (25) is a renowned IT man in the province of Oum Albouaki and his reputation was so big that the security forces were calling on his know-how to repair their hay wired computers. He seized this opportunity to collect classified files and post them on the internet.
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• A similar case was recorded in the region in less than two years, when a university student has infiltrated the security forces’ site to be busted and put in prison.