German police arrest 20-year-old local student for stealing and publishing massive trove of personal data of politicians, journalists and other public figures. The young man was arrested after police raided his parent’s house in west-central German State of Hesse on Sunday. Police recovered computer that the suspect tried to destroy 2 days before the search and a data backup. The suspect, who believed to have acted alone, has admitted of carrying out the mass hacking of German politicians out of anger at their political statements.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2019/01/germany-data-leak-arrested.html