Police are hunting a hacker who hacked 150 schoolgirl webcams using a trojan.
An electrical engineer, working with a group which holds lectures in German schools about the privacy dangers of the Internet, was approached by girls with a curious problem with their webcams – “Two girls told me that the indicator light on their webcams were always on.”
Investigating the suspect computers, he soon discovered them to be infected with a trojan capable of controlling the computer’s webcam, apparently spread through using popular messaging software ICQ. The hacker was apparently able to email images back to himself at will.
The attacks appeared to originate from the German town of Aachen.
Police are currently investigating the case, saying that at least 150 girls were affected.
he saw their faces, big deal.
He also could have and probably did see everything these girls do every day on their own in their own room, including but not limited to dressing/undressing, self gratification, and possibly even underage sex.
pretty scary
Technology is a pervert’s best friend.
True story.
any stupid cracker could do the same.
with a trojan? big deal -_-
but it’s funny ^0^
i like the guy who did it for not lacking courage and imagination.
anyways, he’ll get caught sooner or later
i wonder how come only those girls were infected. if it’s really from Germany why in this particular school. I think rather some worker did it or someone used help of one of schoolgirls and it’s not really Germany but some German anon-proxy, cause there’s a law in Germany that allows it.
anyways if he was e-mailing these images than he’s caught already and no proxy will help him XD