maybe the authorities believed that the kid wasn't responsible for the hacking, there is the likelyhood that the kid was either assisted or wasn't even involved in the break-in.
I haven't read any articles, but I personally find it difficult to believe that a child of 8 years is capable of hacking a protected server. I don't know what kind of IT educational programs they are running in Turkey for children, but when I was 8, I was learning DOS on my dad's IBM XT with a greenscreen.
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