Young hacker jailed

JOSE LUIS CALAMA , the judge of Audiencia Nacional, on Monday, April 3, sent Jose Luis Huertas, known as ‘Alcasec’, to pro­ visional prison. The young hacker was suspected of hacking into the Neutral Point last October where information from all the courts in Spain is kept. He allegedly accessed the bank details of 575,186 taxpayers.

Huertas was arrested by the police last weekend and appeared in court on Monday. According to legal sources, he was accused of an alleged continuous crime of discovery and disclosure of secrets.

The alleged acts were carried out on October 18 and 20 when the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) detected a cyber­attack through the passwords of two officials of the administration of Justice. They had subsequently been used as a springboard to access the databases of the Tax Agency.

In the prison order, the head of examining magistrate’s court explained that the data were transferred to two servers hosted in Lithuania. ‘Alcasec’ sold the personal data of multiple affected people through the uSms platform paid through cryptocurrencies.

Huertas’ arrest was first announced by a news source, and was made by the General Information Police, although ‘Alcasec’ had already been on the radar of officers for other cyberattacks.