It only took a few days, as the Federal Criminal Police Office was able to present a suspected culprit: Johannes S., a 20-year-old student from Hesse, is suspected of exposing about 1000 politicians and celebrities on the Internet in December. He therefore published mobile phone numbers and private addresses, in part also intimate chats, emails, photos, passport copies and bank account data. Doxing is called this approach.
The investigators were able to recognize in first assessments "no dominant political motive" behind the bustle of the one who called himself in the net "0rbit" and "G0d" and slammed out of his youth room out. But SPIEGEL research shows that the act could have been more political than was initially suspected. The "Badische Zeitung" has come to similar conclusions.
Johannes S. was moving, which is supported by many indications, in a right to far right subculture in the net. Influential YouTube creators use inhumane propaganda videos to shape the world view of young people.
One of these channels is Vulgar Analysis. The videos uploaded there show, for example, how a Qur'an is burned and grilled on pork or how it is urinated on him. "The vulgar analysis" possibly provided the hacker Johannes S. with the templates, with which he spread even Islamophobic propaganda on the net. For example, S. said under the name "r00taccess", which is attributed to his account, "islam is filthy".
It is also noticeable that "The Vulgar Analysis" set against many personalities whose data John S. later put on the web. The method of "tearing and humiliating politically dissenters" into the public - in front of the world, "propagated" Vulgar Analysis ". That's exactly what John S. later put into action, according to investigators. Other creators also report that S. was particularly influenced by "vulgar analysis".
According to SPIEGEL information behind the Hetz channel apparently a young musician from North Rhine-Westphalia, against which in the past was already determined for insult and personal injury.
Even if the investigators still can not identify accomplices of Johannes S., one has to ask the question whether there were any ideas or hater, mentors in the background. The public prosecutor Stuttgart and the state protection determine meanwhile because of the "vulgar analysis", it concerns among other things to sedition. The protection of the Constitution has also become aware of the videos.