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Subject: [ISN] US charges hacker with providing ISIL info on US military personnel
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2015-10-19 8:32:44
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/us-charges-hacker-with-providing-isil-info-on-us-military-personnel/
By David Kravets
Ars Technica
Oct 16, 2015
The US government has arrested and charged the person authorities
described as the head of an overseas Internet hacking collective called
the Kosova Hacker's Security. The suspect, a Kosovo citizen named Ardit
Ferizi, was arrested in Malaysia, the authorities said. He is accused of
stealing data on US military personnel by hacking US corporate computers
and then providing that data to the Islamic State terror group "for the
purpose of encouraging terrorist attacks against those individuals," the
government said late Thursday.
The authorities said it was the first known case in which a hacker and a
terror group joined forces.
"Ardit Ferizi is a terrorist hacker who provided material support to ISIL
by stealing the personally identifiable information of US service members
and federal employees and providing it to ISIL for use against those
employees," John Carlin, the Justice Department's national security chief,
said in a statement.
The defendant, who faces up to 35 years in prison if convicted, is accused
of forwarding the data to Junaid Hussain, an Islamic State hacker killed
in August by a military airstrike.
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