A 27-year-old hacker from Thrace, known as AK47, managed to climb Greece’s list of most-wanted by managing to penetrate security codes by penetrating 250,000 computers along the planet and wreaking havoc on Facebook. The police have yet to release his name, just his initials – A.K.
Police Cyber Crime Center Chief Manolis Sfakianakis describes him and his fellow-hacker as “geniuses” with high-tech abilities that make them stand out. But despite A.K.’s ability to calculate and interpret complex data and logismics, he barely finished senior high school and didn’t continue his education even though he was interested in studying computers at a private college something rendered difficult due to lack of money.
Unable to pursue his professional dreams he continued his hobby – hacking. Facebook was his main target area and he made infiltrating into high security systems appear like child’s play.
“There was no particular reason for everything that happened, and I had nothing bad in mind,” he says. “After all, Facebook incurred no financial damage or anything else. Instead, it made the system protect its users better than before.” He says that his interest in challenging Facebook’s security system began on a whim. It all came to an end when police bombarded his home at 7.30 a.m. one morning to realize that the man whose tag is named after kalashnikov AK 47 was just doing it for kicks.
He denies making any money from his hacking, though he could have. Proof of this lies in the fact that no Facebook user has come out to state that even one bitcoin is missing. He labels the mess he created as something of an “experiment” and told Facebook to consider that he was rendering them a service “free of charge.” He points out that he could have really caused damage to Facebook users but chose not to.
His advice to users is this: “Don’t open anything, any file that you’re not expecting. Even if it’s supposedly from a friend.”
A.K. is now awaiting trial for espionage and is also offecially unemployed. He says that it is difficult for him to find work with only high school credentials, despite his obvious “endowments”. Deep down a child at heart, he still has big dreams of someday working for national intelligence by breaking codes and infiltrating systems.
On it’s part, Facebook thanked the Hellenic Police for putting an end to AK 47 and his friend’s activities.
The blue-eyed hacker from Thrace known as AK 47 only allowed this photo from this angle to be taken
