Is this action illegal?

[Raphael]

sounds illegal to me.
however I am pretty sure that the twitter tech support team will just tell you to use the 'forgot password' function, because I'm convinced that you're not the first one who has done something like that.

by the way, twitter employees cannot(!) give you the password (as if they would), because it's saved as a hash (=encryption that cannot be reversed).

@Kenneth
I totally agree with you, but according to wired.com "Kernell was sentenced to one year and one day in custody and three years of probation."

EDIT:
@Alexis what kind of code did you send / where did you get it from - this seems quite ridiculous.
I'm not sure if you can post it according to the community guidelines, so if you are really worried just write to my mail address neogeometalslug@yahoo.com & I'll give it a look.