Twitter @BurgerKing Hacker Given Four Year Jail Term

Twitter @BurgerKing Hacker Given Four Year Jail Term

Remember back in February 2013 when the @BurgerKing Twitter profile was hacked?

Sure you do. It was actually pretty funny – the exploiter changed Burger King’s Twitter header photo and avatar to the McDonald’s logo and made an announcement that BK had been acquired by Ronald and co.

Well, federal prosecutors have finally caught up with the person behind the hack, and it’s only taken them 17 months.

Slow clap.

25-year-old Cameron Lacroix, a resident of New Bedford, Massachusetts – who was already infamous for hacking into Paris Hilton’s cellphone and a number of other high-profile incidents – has pled guilty to a hacking spree that targeted computer networks around the U.S.

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