The 12-year-old who hacked government sites for Anonymous

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Most 7th-graders are busy playing Grand Theft Auto V or discovering how their voice changes through puberty, but one in Montreal was hitting the internet and causing mayhem.

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A 12-year-old boy in Montreal has pleaded guilty to breaking into multiple government and police websites in the name of the hacker collective Anonymous, reports the Toronto Sun. The attacks were not politically motivated, however; the boy testified that he traded information to members of Anonymous in exchange for videogames.

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