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> didn't have had ANY interest in explaining how he got to it, besides creating a hoax to confuse and divert attention.

Would the story have gone viral, though, had he just said, "I'm not going to say anything about how I did it."? The story would have just been another "I got hacked" story.

If the hacker were really clever enough to fabricate such an elaborate hoax, I think he would have been clever enough to realize the best way to divert attention from the story, would have been to just keep quiet.

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The argument was, he was deflecting attention away from him towards others - which, as this thread for the parent poster shows, worked.

My argument is, this attention wouldn't even be here had he just kept quiet.

I don't think he was clever enough to have foresight that a) this would get this much attention, and b) he would need to deflect said attention by fabricating an elaborate hoax.

The guy was simply wanting to brag about what he did in the excitement of him actually pulling it off. I think this is much more believable than him fabricating this story.

One issue to be thought of is if he tells how he hacked the accounts, it would become difficult for him to hack some other accounts in the future. But I have found out that he has a habit of giving out advice to people. I have done some searching and found out (hopefully) who he is.

A simple google search for the email swiped@live.com revealed this link http://mydomaintest.com/index.php?query=getgamesfree.net with owner douglas

A password reset on that account shows the following accounts listed. do * * * @gmail.com do * * * @aim.com

A password reset on aim.com for user name douglas(just guessing) also revealed the email d * * * *8@froze.org

Searching for the name douglas parmele and 5167, brenda gave a result http://welfare.im/dox/index.php?name=communist

There is a reference of froze.us in the dox.

Here you get his hackerforums.net profile http://www.hackforums.net/member.php?action=profile&uid=1399...

search for his posts and you see most of them are selling novelty twitter and other accounts

http://www.hackforums.net/search.php?action=results&sid=953a...

Here he gives out advice on securing accounts. http://www.hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=3610513

You have to have an account on hackforums.net to view those links.

After all the prison sentences lately, I'm not sure he wants to brag about himself.

If he were really that concerned about prison sentences, would he have done this to begin with?

Not being snarky, that's a real question. I don't know the minds and rationale of hackers.

I generally get the impression hackers honestly feel they're invincible, until they get caught. Maybe that's a misperception though.

That may be an age thing - often they are young males. Entirely conjecture.