US charges hacker with providing ISIL info on US military personnel

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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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