Police Arrest Frenchman Responsible for Hacking Twitter Accounts of Obama and Others

The man, using the name "Hacker Croll," sent a zip file of 310 internal documents to the tech site, which caused an ethical journalistic dilemma: the files were illegally accessed, but could legally be published--what to do? In the end, TechCrunch published some of the less-personal items, including bits about Twitter's financial situation.

But Twitter wasn't the only target of Hacker Croll; he also gained access to the Twitter account of celebrities and other prominent figures, including...