Obama's Twitter hacker receives a suspended sentence

A 23-year-old Frenchman has been accustomed a abeyant bastille book for hacking into US President Obama's annual on micro-blogging armpit Twitter.

Francois Cousteix, who surfed the web beneath the name Hacker-Croll, had faced a best bastille appellation of two-years.

He told the attorneys he afraid the annual for the accepted good, to highlight aloofness breaches.

"I did it for antitoxin reasons, not to aching people," Mr Cousteix said. He said he was "relieved" at the sentence.

'Public information'

Mr Cousteix was bent hacking into the president's annual in March afterwards FBI board in the US alerted French authorities.

Investigators begin that the hacker deduced the passwords of Twitter administrators from accessible advice on the web, appropriately accepting admission to the accounts of important and acclaimed individuals.

Mr Cousteix told the authoritative adjudicator that he did not accede himself a hacker "in the austere faculty of the term."

He added: "I didn't abort anything. I could have, but I didn't. It's adjoin my ethics."