Authorities in Argentina have arrested a 19-year-old hacker who allegedly stole $50,000 a month from on-line gambling pages. Also called the “super hacker” the 19-year-old was reportedly operating for months from his bedroom in Buenos Aires. Police had been working for over a year to catch the hacker. When the arrest went down authorities have been forced to shut down the power to the entire neighborhood in an effort to create positive the hacker couldn’t destroy or delete data that would be vital to their case.

The hacker, who has not been named is mentioned to be the son of an info systems engineer. The hacker was initially detained in his home in July as part of a raid on numerous hackers generally known as “Operation Zombie.” Yet another six people have already been identified as a part of the hacking operation. Police began investigating the hacking allegations when a businessman brought the hacker for the focus of police. The businessman provided his solutions as the host for personal internet pages. The Telegraph reports the businessman told police “that a hacker was remotely entering the servers to intercept monetary transfers.”

Garciela Gils Carbo is Argentina’s chief prosecutor as well as the one particular who ordered the federal police to start their investigation. The authorities discovered that exactly the same particular person was steeling cash from transfers and on line gambling websites. “”Internet users had been victims of a ‘malware’ virus that the hacker hosted inside a server for downloading on the internet gaming applications,” study a statement from Argentina’s Minsitry. Reports say the hacker “carried out a “denial of service” maneuver that utilized a network of a huge number of “zombie” computer systems to saturate the platform for payments so users could not access their accounts around the time with the attack.”