After turning himself in, he testifies on camera for the first time for L’Œil du 20 heures. The meeting took place at his father’s home, in the south of France, after numerous exchanges.
A few days ago, he confessed to his stunned father that he had taken part in these operations. Immediately afterward, he spontaneously turned himself in to the gendarmerie.
After the arrest of an accomplice, the young man preferred to get ahead of events. He went to the gendarmerie.
Journalists had been in contact with him for months.
By reselling stolen data, the teenager says he amassed up to 150,000 euros in cryptocurrency. The hacking involves the data of 12 million French people.
Asked about a typical day, he said: “I got up at 6:30, I did my workday like everyone else and then in the evening I came home and spent hours on the computer.”.
Easy money, according to him, would almost make him forget the consequences of his actions.