Since early this morning, an article has been circulating on the internet that talks about the arrest of a Greek hacker in Thailand, who allegedly stole hundreds of thousands of euros via bitcoins. This article, which is being republished on many sites, is supposedly written on the Eleftherotypia website, enet.gr. In reality, it has been published on a site with the address eleutherotypia.gr, which completely illegally impersonates the official Eleftherotypia website by modifying both the content and the logo of the newspaper.
The article states the following:
"Greek "hacker" Petros Angelatos was arrested at 11 a.m. Monday.".
As announced in a press release by the Hellenic Police's Cybercrime Unit, the arrested man stole hundreds of thousands of euros by hacking the digital cryptocurrency "bit-coin". The young student at the Electrical Engineering School of the Technical University of Athens illegally gained access to digital "wallets" of unsuspecting users, which he then used to transfer money to his account.
After a months-long police investigation, the would-be hacker was located in Pak Kret, Thailand, where he was arrested by local authorities in cooperation with the Greek Police in the early hours of Monday morning. He was then transferred to Athens' Eleftherios Venizelos Airport, where he was handcuffed and taken to appear before the investigator.
Obviously, this is not a real incident, but an April Fool's Day prank.
The registration of eleutherotypia.gr was made upon application by a certain Papaki Ltd. on March 30, that is, the day before yesterday.
We inform our readers that this is not the real Eleftherotypia site and we will take legal action against anyone responsible for this unprecedented forgery.
Source: enet.gr
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