Meet Hamza bendelladj who hacked 217 banks to help poor people

Not so many times do we hear about hackers or robbers who get money illegally to help the poor, while some people find what they do awesome, others probably who had fallen into their traps once condemned them totally, we can say they were saving some in cost of others, here is the story of Hamza bendelladj, nicknamed the smiling hacker, read on we have what to discuss on.




Hamza bendelladj was born 1988, he was an Algerian hacker who created a hacking software for called Spy eye for himself to hack banks, he was said to have hacked over 217 banks with total sum of 4000 million US dollars, but what heroic he did was helping the poor with the money, mostly poor people In Africa.






He got his code name as BX1, probably that was a code name his colleagues called him, he broke into banks and individual computers to acquire their passwords and emptied their accounts.

On Jan 2013, after three years of chasing him by the FBI and Interpol, because he was on their most wanted list. He was said to be smiling even at the face of been arrested which earned him the nickname smiling hacker.





After his arrest many people claimed he was hanged but that was debunked, and that they were false claims, he was said to have been sent to jail to spend a long term.

What do you see about this, was what Hamza doing right or wrong helping the poor with the money? And sending him to jail was it right or he could just be fined? Your opinion is highly appreciated.