Hacker sent packing

citizen who was arrested in Estepona in Malaga province back in 2021 on 14 different criminal charges related with hacking.

The charges include belonging to a criminal organisation, fraud, extortion, illegal hacking, money laundering and propagation of confidential information. The individual is also accused of hacking hundreds of Twitter accounts including those of important public figures, robbing and blackmailing people through the internet.

The Spanish court ruled in favour of the suspect being extradited to the US, rejecting the defence’s arguments that a sentence given in the US would likely be harsher and therefore disproportionate to the crimes committed. The court said that an American court would be in a better position to judge the facts since the events had a greater impact there.