The hacker, who called himself Bigr R, said he broke into NextEra Energy Resources' Fort Sumner wind facility in revenge for an "illegitimate firing." He posted what he said was proof of his exploits to several places Saturday, including the

In fact, the "proof" he provided had been gathered from public websites and contained contradictory information.

Ruben Santamarta, head of security assessment at the security consultancy Wintercore, He found that the screenshots allegedly proving Bigr R had access to the Fort Sumner management console were lifted from a file on a publicly available FTP server.

After pointing out a number of technical errors in the alleged proof, Santamarta concluded that Bigr R was a fake.

NextEra, owned by Florida Power & Light (FPL), had already said on Sunday that the material offered as proof was largely publicly available and that there was