Justice France sentenced late on Thursday (24) to five months probation the young Frenchman accused of invading the accounts of U.S. president, Barack Obama, and Britney Spears in 2009.
Francois Cousteix, 23, was relieved with the sentence and will not appeal the decision of the Court of Clemont-Ferrand.
The sentence, however, is harder than requested by the Tax Ministry, which had asked for only two months of the sentence for a crime that could have cost up to two years imprisonment to the hacker. Cousteix also invaded the care of Evan Williams, creator of Twitter .
The young man, who has a degree in electronics training, defended himself before the Court alleging that he had not destroyed anything and that his offense was a "preventive action to alert Internet users" on their choice of passwords.
On some occasions, there is no need to hack the account on the social network, just pretend you forgot the password and answer a security question, which can be as obvious as the city of birth of the holder or the name of your pet.
Cousteix was arrested on March 24 this year by French and American police officers specializing in Internet crimes.





