12-year-old plead guilty of hacking gov sites, traded info to anonymous for video games

In Montreal, Canada, a 12-year-old boy pleads guilty to hacking government and police websites that occurred last year according to Toronto Sun.

The damage made by the Grade 5 student whose named was not revealed has been estimated to reach $60,000.

Hacked websites are those of Montreal police, the Quebec Institute of Public Health, Chilean government and some non-public websites.

He attacked the mentioned websites by Distributed Denial of Service, exploiting to successful defacement and leakage of confidential information from its servers.

The hacking is not politically motivated, as according to further report by Toronto Sun, the young hacker exchanged information to ‘anonymous’ hacker collective in return for video games.

He was nine years old when first fascinated about computers.