Police hunt Russian hacker in NZ

Published: 7:35AM Sunday April 25, 2010 Source: Newstalk ZB

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Police are hunting a Russian computer hacker who may have set up shop in New Zealand, selling the account details of millions of Facebook users.

Detectives from the National Cyber Crime Centre are investigating whether the hacker Kirllos is using New Zealand as a base.

He is offering to sell Facebook user names and passwords on an underground hacker forum.

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