Security News > 2019 > January > 20-Year-Old Man Arrested For Carrying Out Germany's Biggest Data Leak

2019-01-08 17:18
German federal police have arrested a 20-year-old local student for stealing and publishing a massive trove of personal data of hundreds of politicians, journalists and other public figures last month. The young man, whose identity has not been revealed by the police, was arrested after police raided his parent's house in west-central German State of Hesse on Sunday and recovered a computer
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