March 27

Alleged and infamous Twitter hacker finally arrested, sources report.

The FBI in cooperation with the French Police this week arrested the alleged Twitter hacker known only as “Hacker Croll. The 25 year old suspect allegedly stole corporate documents from the social networking giant in 2009. He also hacked into several notable Twitter accounts, including Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher.

Little is known about Hacker Croll’s actual identity, but he is reportedly a 25 year-old unemployed man from the French city of Claremont-Ferrand who lives at home with his parents. Croll is due to appear in French court on June 24.

Croll conducted an interview with TechCrunch last year in which he indicated he did not hack Twitter out of malice, rather merely to show the company how easy it was to do in the hopes they’d patch up security holes. And the Ashton Kutcher thing, well, he did that just for fun.

The AFP is reporting that Croll may face up to two-years in prison.