16 Year old Indian Hacker released from Jail for eBay & PayPal Scams !!

Couldn't he just give the things he bought to the people he stole from :O.

Maybe just asking for a refund. After all, he is a kid.

 

you set up a phishing site, or use some brute force technic to steal someones account.
this is not hacking comeone guys hahah
hacking require a great amount of knowledge about servers, some programming languages etc..

the act that guy done is stealing.

 

he was only 16 years old and yet he is so clever.

 

The really clever ones are 10 year old hackers who can't be caught.

 

he misused knowledge, But he can be recovered for good stuffs by advices.

 

Poor kid... What he did is still wrong, but I feel sorry for him...

 

They has good knowledge of hacking but they used it for bad practices...

 

He belongs in jail no matter what his age is. It's insane how many people hack credit cards and put the details on things like forums just to increase their member count. If someone was spending your money, you'd want them to be punished no matter what their age is. Think about the people who worked hard to earn it. Most people don't have jobs that pay high enough to have no financial damage when others spend their money :S

 

He is not a hacker but a "scamster". What ever he did cant be considered hacking, he just stole user info, most probably using some easily available spying tools, fake logins and keyloggers, and made purchases.
He is not talented..

 

I agree with dc0ded, and the fact that he had no idea what he was doing led to his arrest.

Using free tools can only get you so far.

 

Ok, he pays you with a stolen Paypal account, you send your PS3 to his address, Paypal then discover the account was stolen and take the funds off you to comply with their ToS. He's stolen your PS3 from you - do you still feel sorry for the poor kid?

 

He got caught, there's nothing clever about that

 

I'd be pissed off, sure

But at the same time still feel sorry... he's still so young but has already screwed up his life. It's his human side that I'm feeling sorry for.

What was he like? Was he poor? Had anybody paid enough attention to him, to show him what's right, what's wrong? Where was his parents? Did anybody indoctrinate him about stealing from the people who had more money than him? What was he thinking? Was he a monster? A bandit? Or simply a curious kid who found something interesting to do online and tested how far he could go without actually realizing the consequences he would face afterwards?

Whatever his background... he screwed up his life. Forever everybody will probably remember him as "the thief"....

 

He deserves atleast 5 years at jail!

 

he's a good hacker..LOL anyway he deserves to be in jail..

 

All Warez and Hacking community must be closed they make such kids to go on wrong side.I rade in news paper few days back that one guy who is from Chennai hacked some paypal accounts and credit cards and bought lots of goods.He said he was member of an hacking community where people use to show how and what they hacked and hackers image in that community is like an hero (Exactly like here we get reps for helping others, there they get reps for showing there hacking talent) so they get attracted over it and they follow the same without thinking about it and results in this.

 

It's sad that he got into the wrong path at such a young age. But good that the police found out and could crack the racket.

 

What ?

You feel sorry for a person who has stolen 5000+ Credit cards and paypals ?

The amount must be more than 100,000$ if we calculate the totals