According to BBC report, a Frenchman has been arrested on the suspects of hacking into the Twitter account of President Barack Obama, after a months-long inquiry between the FBI and French police.

The 25-year-old was seized and released Tuesday, but can face imprisonment for two years if found guilty of breaking into the micro-blogging site Twitter by guessing users' passwords.

In April 2009, Twitter had confirmed the hack in a blog post and said that 10 individual accounts were divulged during the hack but "initial security reviews and investigations indicated that no account information was altered or removed in any way".

The personal data that was revealed by the incident could have included victims' e-mail addresses, mobile phone numbers, and the list of accounts blocked by the user. Twitter said that it got in touch with the persons whose accounts were manipulated by the hack.

The suspect was investigated by police, and is supposed to appear in court in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand on June 24.

Reuters reported that the suspect, who supposedly performed hacking activities under the false name, `Hacker Croll', "had no particular technological expertise", but had instead gained access to Twitter accounts by guessing the answers to password reminder questions.