David Beckham’s hacker is on the run in Europe: report

British soccer superstar David Beckham will have to wait in line if he’s hoping for justice from the hacker who leaked his tantrum-filled e-mails — because the same cyber-thief is also being sought by the Spanish, Portuguese and Hungarian police,...

David Beckham’s hacker is on the run in Europe: report

British soccer superstar David Beckham will have to wait in line if he’s hoping for justice from the hacker who leaked his tantrum-filled e-mails — because the same cyber-thief is also being sought by the Spanish, Portuguese and Hungarian police, a new report says.

The fugitive hacker calls himself John and has angered a long line of international victims, including African despots and Russian, Turkish and Kazakh mafias, the Daily Mirror reported Friday.

“John” — who brought shame down on Team Beckham by exposing a tantrum he threw when he was overlooked for a knighthood — is wickedly clever, and more than a little paranoid, according to the Mirror.

He continually moves around Europe, never staying more than a couple of nights in the same place.

And he has scrambled his phone’s GPS signal so that his location shows up as somewhere near the North Pole.

The furtive life hasn’t stopped “John” from giving a series of interviews to the German newspaper Der Spiegel, however.

“John” told the paper that he fears someone putting poison in his beer, as “that would be the easiest way to get rid of me.”

The hacker is most famous for stealing 18.6 million emails from the servers of Beckham’s advisors.

The cache included a rant in which Beckham railed against the royal committee that failed to name him “Sir” in 2013.

“They r a bunch of c—s. I expected nothing less,” he griped, according to the Telegraph.

“It’s a disgrace to be honest, and if I was American, I would have got something like this 10 years ago.”

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