Ardit Ferizi, aka Th3Dir3ctorY, from Kosovo was sentenced inwards federal courtroom inwards Alexandria, for "providing cloth back upwards to the Islamic State of Republic of Iraq in addition to the Levant (ISIL) in addition to accessing a protected reckoner without authorisation in addition to obtaining information inwards society to furnish cloth back upwards to ISIL," the Department of Justice announced on Friday.
The 21-year-old ISIS-linked hacker obtained the information past times hacking into the USA spider web hosting company's servers on June 13, 2015.
Ferizi thus filtered out over 1,300 USA armed forces in addition to regime employees' information from the stolen information in addition to thus handed them over to Junaid Hussain, according to courtroom filings [PDF].
The stolen information contains personally identifiable information (PII), which includes names, electronic mail addresses, passwords, locations in addition to telephone numbers of USA armed forces service members in addition to regime workers.
Junaid Hussain, who was a British jihadi in addition to believed to hold out the thus leader in addition to creator of a grouping of ISIS hackers called the Islamic State Hacking Division (ISHD), posted the names in addition to personal information of 100 USA service member's families online.
The Hussain's statements included:
"We are inwards your emails in addition to reckoner systems, watching in addition to recording your every move, nosotros convey your names in addition to addresses, nosotros are inwards your emails in addition to social media accounts, nosotros are extracting confidential information in addition to passing on your personal information to the soldiers of the Khilafah, who shortly amongst the permission of Allah volition strike at your necks inwards your ain lands!"Hussain, who was besides known every bit Abu Hussain Al-Britani in addition to used the moniker TriCk, was later on killed inwards a USA drone strike inwards Syrian Arab Republic inwards August final year.
The USA authorities besides tracked downwardly Ferizi to Malaysia, where he was arrested past times the local authorities on Oct 6, 2015, piece trying to select handgrip of a flying dorsum to Kosovo.
Before helping ISIS, Ferizi had served every bit an alleged leader of the Kosova Hacker's Security (KHS) hacking grouping in addition to hacked into a position out of regime sites belonging to the Presidency of Macedonia, the Greek Ministry of Education, the Greek Decentralized Administration of Republic of Macedonia in addition to Thrace (DAMT), Lifelong Learning in addition to Religion. He besides stole information from IBM in addition to Greek mobile telecoms theater OTE.
Ferizi was pleaded guilty on June 15, 2016, in addition to faced a judgement of upwards to 35 years inwards prison, but the judgement was reduced to a maximum of 25 years after agreeing to plead guilty. However, defense strength lawyers said he meant no existent terms in addition to asked for a six-year sentence.
