French hacker was arrested after compromising Obama’s account on Twitter.com

French police arrested a hacker who compromised account by Obama in a mini-blogging network Twitter.  The hacker simply guessed the answers to test questions.

In July last year, the FBI informed their French counterparts that the attacker is on the territory of France.

Attacker was 25-year-old unemployed man, who acted under the pseudonym Hacker Croll. He was arrested in the department of Puy-de-Dôme in central France, as a result of working with the FBI raid, which took place over several months.

According to police, he committed to cyber attacks on social networking site Facebook and the electronic mailboxes Internet company Google. Among his victims, in addition to Barack Obama, there were other celebrities, including singer Britney Spears.

Representatives of law enforcement officials emphasized that the prisoner did not attempt to learn from their actions any financial profit.

Hacker Croll had no technical background and cracked the accounts by selecting a password. Hacker Croll guess answers to questions designed to remind owners of their accounts on Twitter password.

Trick for the attacker managed to crack the codes of your network administrator to Twitter, so that he could at his discretion to create, modify or delete "pages" that users of social networking, after which he created a blog that describes all of its "discovery" made by criminal means.

After the arrest of the suspect was questioned and then released after a subscription to appear in court on June 24.

Recall that the hacking of databases on the Internet in France is considered a crime for which you can get two years in prison.

Barack Obama himself made sure that everyone can get online

immediately after the election to the presidency Barack Obama has promised that during his work at the White House will do its best for the development of the American infrastructure and distribution of high-speed Internet access.

In his address predvyboronom Obama has promised to do everything to improve access to the Internet, including schools and hospitals.

"It is unacceptable that the U.S. is now located on the fifteenth place in the world for the spread of broadband networks, - said President-elect. - Here, in a country that invented the Internet, every child should be able to get online. And when I become president, the child will be the opportunity, because that's how we will strengthen U.S. competitiveness in the world ".

Twitter is not only Obama, but also the British Queen and Russia's president

today Twitter is one of the most striking phenomena in the information environment.

Now Twitter is and famous athletes (Shaquille O'Neal, Lance Armstrong) and politics (John McCain, Barack Obama), and stars of show business.

Some, such as Britney Spears, usually a "post" messages written by their assistants, and simply announce various events and activities. Others - for example, American actor and a talk show Jimmy Fallon will use this service to advertise their new projects (Fallon promotes his new show on channel NBC).

But the real stars are those who use the full potential of this site as a place to communicate on everyday topics.

One of the most popular mikrobloggerov is MC Hammer, rap star of the nineties, has reinvented itself as an Internet businessman and co-founder video sites DanceJam.com. He has more than 157 thousand "folloversov.

The most famous pair of Twitter is actor Ashton Kutcher and his wife Demi Moore (who writes under the nickname mrskutcher).

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger also uses the microblogging service Twitter, which he manages to fill up even during meetings and meetings. For his records to more than 700 thousand people. And make sure that the entries made in person "terminator", is easy: the unique linguistic style inherent Schwarzenegger, is read at once.

Did not fail to respond to the rapidly growing popularity of social network Twitter, which allows to place the information "one line", and the British royal family, which in July 2009 opened a portal to the home page. Duties on blogging royal family, with the permission of the Queen and Prince Charles of Wales, shared the office of Buckingham Palace and Clarence House (the official residence of Prince Charles).