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The CentCom Hacker May Be a British 20-Year-Old
New York Magazine ^ | 01/15/2015 | By Katie Zavadski

Posted on 01/15/2015 7:58:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Officials may have tracked down the leader of the group responsible for the not particularly harmful (but quite embarrassing) United States Central Command social media hack Monday, and the culprit may be none other than a 20-year-old Brit named Junaid Hussain. The avowed ISIS supporter who also goes by the moniker "TriCk" is believed to be behind the so-called Cyber Caliphate, which undertook the extremely strenuous task of guessing passwords to accounts CENTCOM wasn't smart enough to protect with two-step verification.

The millennial has already served a stint in prison for leaking former British PM Tony Blair's personal information and photos. After completing the six-month sentence, Hussain seems to have moved to Syria to live under the Islamic State. A Twitter handle apparently belonging to him identifies Hussain as Abu Hussain Al Britani. His last tweet was posted in November:

ISIS Bucket Challenge: Covert to Sunni within 24 hours or get beheaded— AbuHussain AlBritani (@abuhussain105) November 28, 2014


(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: centcom; deathtoislam; hacking; incompetence; isis; twitter

1 posted on 01/15/2015 7:58:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Britain is harboring terrorists just like Pakistan.


2 posted on 01/15/2015 8:00:41 AM PST by Viennacon
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To: SeekAndFind

Musselman


3 posted on 01/15/2015 8:02:33 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: SeekAndFind

Is he a White House staffer?


4 posted on 01/15/2015 8:02:46 AM PST by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: SeekAndFind

The only unexpected piece of news in all this is his location

Or perhaps not.


5 posted on 01/15/2015 8:05:41 AM PST by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

And the password is: “cent123”!

Just a guess.....


6 posted on 01/15/2015 8:08:09 AM PST by proxy_user
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To: SeekAndFind

A 20-year-old Brit named Junaid Hussain ought to be an attractive “bunk muffin” to a 350 pound gorilla named “Big Willie.”


7 posted on 01/15/2015 8:08:53 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Viennacon

The article says he is now in Syria.


8 posted on 01/15/2015 8:09:15 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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To: Vigilanteman

“Big Willie” can re define ‘radicalize’ for him! :)


9 posted on 01/15/2015 8:29:36 AM PST by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Most likely he’s snoozing in the Lincoln Bedroom.


10 posted on 01/15/2015 9:13:52 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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