14 DAY TRIAL // An underage offender was arrested on Friday in Quebec, Canada, in relation to a hacking incident that occurred in February, 2014, directed at a third-party IT supplier of Bell telecommunications company.
According to the police, the arrested teen is believed to be part of a hacktivist group called NullCrew, that broke into systems belonging to various businesses as well as schools and government agencies.
At the time, NullCrew posted on Twitter that they had managed to hack Bell and provided a link to the leaked information.
In an interview, a representative of the group said that Bell had been informed of the vulnerability they had exploited and the fact that customer information could be accessed without authorization.
On February 2, a press release from Bell Canada announced that a total of 22,421 user names and passwords belonging to Bell small-business customers had been posted on the Internet the previous weekend. Also leaked were five valid credit card numbers.
The hacktivist was charged with one count of unauthorized use of a computer (breaching protected systems) and two counts of mischief in relation to data (spilling the information online) and is scheduled to appear in court on August 19.