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November 3, 2015

US prosecutes man who hacked identities to help ISIS

by John_A

IRAQ-CONFLICT

Extremism and terrorism are complex things in the internet era, and US federal prosecutors are learning this first hand. The Justice Department recently charged Kosovo citizen Ardit Ferizi with leading a hacking team that swiped the personal data of US military staffers in order to help Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) supporters kill as many as 1,000 Americans. That campaign hasn’t panned out, as you might have guessed, but it makes the consequences of a typical data breach look timid by comparison.

Source: The Hill

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