Brit Arrested for Massive Hack on German Telecom

Today, news broke about a cybercriminal being caught not long after the alleged crime. Initially, the Russians were implicated in perpetrating this affair, but turned up to be a resident of UK. His creative scheme was to take down a million home routers on Deutsche Telekom's network, convert them to "botnets," then sell his newly claimed array on supposedly encrypted chats. All while evading detection and disabling more than 1 million home users internet.

More light is required on the matter to make a clear distinction on this event. I'm not claiming conspiracy, lets just inquire in its sumission to the public. How would Germans spot this character in a UK airport? What were the travel plans? What were his alledged crimes in UK? While the story was reported in The Local, RT was sure to pick up the story and announce triumphantly that it wasn't Russians after all.

I'm currently digging to see if we can pull up the alleged post in which he intended to sell his array. I am hesitant to say it, but the sheer scale of this take down and the irrational attempt to sell his success makes me wonder if a competent individual would allow himself to be picked up in an airport.

Why, if the Germans knew it was a UK man, point the finger at the Russians? That ship has sailed, this cold war narrative is very stale. Anyone with a sense of reality will start to question why we're constantly pointing the finger at Russia then subsequently retracting without missing a beat, even if they have "never experienced propaganda before."

Deutsche Telekom could've taken measures to prevent the sale of this hacked array, and they did. The apparent risk of allowing home routers to function as a botnet and then sold as a something functional is a joke. Even if the corporate giant's hands were tied, the home users simply needed to unplug their modem and send it in for a firmware fix. Most likely, the issue was resolved with an online update, assuming that the firmware on the routers is what was affected.

I want to stay as far away as I can to assume that this is quite possibly a False Flag attempt to impose new laws and tools for governments to overshadow the activity online. Timed conveniently when the home internet users needed a long awaited hardware update for their modems (clearly, since they were compromised). Ultimately, thats what will happen, this UK guy just made it more justifiable for states to impose control (although, I still don't agree with the practice).

More information to follow as this story carries the beginnings of a post-cyberpunk hollywood movie. ;)

A UK national has been detained in London on suspicion of carrying out a cyber-attack last year that left 1 million Deutsche Telekom customers without service. At the time, German Chancellor Angela Merkel hinted that Russia might be behind the attack. 

The 29-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday at Luton airport in southern England by officers from the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) at the request of the German police, The Local reported.

“The Briton stands accused of attempted computer sabotage in a particularly serious case,” German federal police and prosecutors said in a statement, adding that they will now seek the hacker’s extradition.

Taken from article on RT as reported by The Local.