There is no age to be gifted in one area. The computer is no exception to the rule, the examples are many young prodigies . Today, a 12 year old boy pleads guilty to numerous DDoS attacks perpetrated for the Anonymous account. He was only 11 years old at the time.
Judged by a Canadian court , the boy threw his attacks during the student demonstrations in 2012. He was enabled to bring down many sites , retrieve user accounts and administrators and even had defaced the home pages of many sites.
According to The Toronto Sun , one of the targeted sites would remain inoperative for two days , causing more than $ 60 000 damage. The Anonymous group have moreover paid the young hacker in Video Games . "It's easy to hack but do not go too far , they finally find us," he said as well .
The boy's arrest was part of a wider crackdown . His actions had "no political purpose ," according to his lawyer . Verdict is expected next month.
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