A 25-year-old French hacker known as "Hacker Croll" was recently caught by French police.

"The hacker was allegedly behind an attack about a year ago in which the Twitter accounts of celebrities ranging from Britney Spears to President Obama were breached; he gained access to a Twitter administrator's password by hacking that administrator's Yahoo Mail account first," writes CNET News' Caroline McCarthy.

"The hacker... appears to have told police what he did to sabotage Twitter's servers and was then released with a court date set for June 24," McCarthy writes. "He was already on authorities' radar for some minor online scam activity, and allegedly has also targeted Facebook and Gmail -- though has never attempted to profit financially from his hijinks."

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