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Malaysia arrests man for hacking U.S. security data to supply targets for Islamic State
Reuters ^ | 10/16/2015 | Yantoultra Ngui

Posted on 10/16/2015 9:07:05 AM PDT by mojito

Malaysia has arrested a man on charges of hacking into the personal information of more than a thousand U.S. security officials and handing the database to the Islamic State militant group in Syria so it could target the individuals.

The 20-year-old from Kosovo, who entered Malaysia in August 2014 to study computer science and forensics at a private institute in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, will be extradited to the United States, police said in a statement on Thursday night.

"Early investigation found the suspect communicated with one of the right hand man (leader) of IS terrorist group in Syria to hack a few servers containing information and details of U.S security personnel and team," Malaysian police said.

"The details were then transferred to the operation unit of the IS group for further action."

The U.S. Justice Department said the man, Ardit Ferizi, a citizen of Kosovo and a known hacker, had been charged with hacking the personal information of 1,351 U.S. military personnel and federal employees and supporting Islamic State.

Ferizi, believed to be the leader of a Kosovar internet hacking group called Kosova Hacker’s Security (KHS), hacked the computer system of a U.S. company and stole the personal identification information (PII) of thousands of individuals, the department said in a statement on its website on Thursday.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 201408; arditferizi; cyberwar; cyberwarfare; extradition; ferizi; hacked; hacker; isis; khs; kosovo; malaysia; nationalsecurity; pii; rendition
Ooops!

Just another of those serious data breaches that fundamentally compromises US security and the safety of US personnel.

First China, now ISIS.

You'd almost think that this was deliberate.

1 posted on 10/16/2015 9:07:06 AM PDT by mojito
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To: mojito

He’ll be out in a couple weeks.


2 posted on 10/16/2015 9:09:28 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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0bama will invite him to the White House, as an exemplar of Muslim technical abilities, right along with “clock boy.”
3 posted on 10/16/2015 9:13:13 AM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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Does Hillary have another server that has had its’ backdoor compromised?

I thought the FBI would have gotten them all by now.


4 posted on 10/16/2015 9:15:02 AM PDT by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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Wonder what other free stuff “clock boy” got? He sure came up with one fine scam. Aided and abetted by the liberal MSM.


5 posted on 10/16/2015 10:19:12 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: mojito

Will the perp get a Whitehut Rose Garden reception?


6 posted on 10/16/2015 11:06:18 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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Do you think Obama will bother to notify the Americans on that list?


7 posted on 10/16/2015 11:30:07 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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So we can’t even fend off hackers from . . . Kosovo?


8 posted on 10/16/2015 1:04:52 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Eliminate "Sanctuary Cities" and "birthright citizenship" and other immigration scams)
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BUMP


9 posted on 10/13/2016 11:21:00 PM PDT by piasa
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