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Monday 19 Oct 2015 - 13:41 Makkah mean time-6-1-1437
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Kuala Lumpur, (IINA) - Malaysia has recently arrested a 20-year-old Ardit Ferizi, Kosovar, at the request of the United States on charges of hacking personal data of more than 1,300 US officials and handing it to ISIS militants in Syria so they could target the individuals, Fortune reported citing Reuters.
The computer science student was charged with hacking the personal information of 1,351 US military personnel and federal employees. Malaysian police said that he had been in contact with an ISIS member in Syria about hacking servers to obtain information about US security personnel.
Ferizi, who is thought to be the leader of an Internet hacking group, supposedly supplied ISIS with the information sometime between April and August. On August 11, an alleged conspirator tweeted, “NEW: US Military AND Government HACKED by the Islamic State Hacking Division!”
The tweet included a link to a 30-page document which read, “We are in your emails and computer systems, watching and recording your every move. We have your names and addresses”. The document warned that the information would soon be passed along to ISIS fighters, saying that ISIS fighters will strike their necks in their own lands.
John Carlin, Assistant US Attorney General, commented on the arrest: “This case is a first of its kind and, with these charges, we seek to hold Ferizi accountable for his theft of this information and his role in ISIL’s (another name for ISIS) targeting of US government employees”.
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