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After being extradited from Morocco and serving a three-year prison sentence in January 2024 in the United States, the hacker Sébastien Raoult returned to France. Facing 116 years in prison for computer fraud and aggravated identity theft, he pleaded guilty, which allowed him to benefit from sentence reductions. The 22-year-old hacker will, however, have to repay five million dollars to the victimized companies, including Microsoft. On Sunday, he spoke to the newspaper Le Parisien.
While he claims to have matured from this experience, Sébastien Raoult remains in conflict with the law. Upon his arrival in France in December 2024, he was indicted for attacking an automated data processing system, based on an investigation by the cybercrime fighting brigade (BL2C). In this context, the prosecution accuses him of «the sale in 2021-2022 of software allowing the scanning of vulnerabilities in Amazon Web Service (AWS) mail servers (SMTP) and then fraudulently taking control of them».
Nevertheless, the young man says he is «happy to reunite with [his] family». Arrested in Morocco in 2022 at the request of the FBI, Sébastien Raoult spent eight months in prison in Morocco before his extradition took effect.
«The American judge understood well that [he] was not the evil hacker as initially presented», explains his lawyer, Philippe Ohayon, quoted by AFP. His client claims to have hacked «out of recklessness rather than a desire to harm».
«I was young at the time, foolish and stupid. It allowed me to mature and grow. I saw people I don't want to become», he assured.
