Likewise there is no reason to believe he didn't. I've met "IT specialists" that can barely operate a smartphone. This server was, at lest originally, supposedly in he home closet. While it is possible that there was a hardware firewall in front of it, active intrusion prevent monitoring, etc., it could just have as easily been a server with a default (non-hardened) configuration shoved in a closet. The Romanian hacker supposedly got into it after doing some basic port sniffing (and then I assume exploiting a known security flaw in the installed software). However, only Fox is reporting his role and, supposedly, the FBI found no evidence to affirm his claim. I guess we'll have to wait and see what the real deal is here (well, at least the government's version).
