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Kosovo hacker faces 25 years in prison for giving ISIS a US kill list

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by on June 16, 2016 at 6:45 am
Posted In: Americans, Around the Web, hacker, ISIL, ISIS, Security breach


Last June – almost a year to the day – a hacker from Kosovo who went by the handle Th3Dir3ctorY breached a server containing databases of personal information about US servicemen and federal employees. Over the next three months, he supplied data pertaining to more than 1,300 US military and government personnel to ISIS. His contact in the terrorist group, a hacker named Junaid Hussain, condensed it into a 30-page document and shared it online with a tweet that read, “NEW: U.S. Military AND Government HACKED by the Islamic State Hacking Division!” Th3Dir3ctorY’s brazen move may have helped ISIS, but…

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