Ardit Ferizi, Kosovar hacker arrested
The Stars & Stripes reports that Ardit Ferizi, a Kosovar hacker was arrested in Malaysia for passing along PII that he gleaned from the internet on American service members to ISIS.
Ferizi is accused of passing the data to Islamic State member Junaid Hussain, a British citizen who in August posted links on Twitter to the names, e-mail addresses, passwords, locations and phone numbers of 1,351 U.S. military and other government personnel. He included a warning that Islamic State “soldiers . . . will strike at your necks in your own lands!”
Later that month, Hussain, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Hussain al-Britani, was killed in a drone strike in Syria.
A few months ago, Ferizi hacked into a commercial retailer’s servers and stole information on about 100,000 customers, then he sent the PII on about 1300 service members that he found in his score to the Islamic State.
Didn’t we just spend billions of dollars protecting Kosovo from the Serbs? I seem to remember something about that. I guess no good deed goes unpunished when you’re the United States. Well, I’m sure this State Department will not have any trouble extraditing this fellow, you know since we have so much good will in the world’s community of nations.
Category: Terror War
I’m starting to think that our responses to atrocities committed against folks outside the U.S. should be either a collective shrug or a price quote before we help out.
boy did we send billions… it’s sad but the Serbs and the Russians may have been right on that one.
saw a 20/20 or something where a group of folks from there are going around the US and ripping people off, oh well as you said Jonn the thanks we always get :/
Hell, provided we get a guarantee that they’ll deal with him in their “special” way, let the Malays keep his ass.
Why don’t we treat these ISIS hackers as enemy combatants? Perhaps if we disappeared a few dozen of them to Gitmo or a secure facility in one of our client states (rendition)the word might get out. No martyrdom for cyber warriors, just a very lonely and solitary existence in a dog kennel somewhere. And no hot sauce for their pork based MREs.
“Perhaps if we disappeared a few dozen of them to Gitmo or a secure facility”
Save the time and money. Just make them “disappear”. Their remains may be discovered. . . eventually. . . in about 10-50 years from now.
WE got manipulated by a bunch of Albanian hillbillies to accomplish what they could not do on their own, which was the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo in a manner similar to what had happened in Bosnia 6 years earlier, and nearly identical to the Croat ethnic cleansing of the Krajina region in August 1995. When Adem Jashari, and 50 members of his family were killed in a firefight with Serbian police AFTER their campaign to “liberate” Kosovo from the evil Serbs through various acts of terrorism, including the murder of Serbian police officers, the Serbs reacted with typical Balkan brutality, and attempted to drain Kosovo of it’s Albanian majority population….which is exactly what the so called Kosovo Liberation Army wanted. NATO stepped in, and the rest is history. I would be curious to know what part of Kosovo this POS hails from, as there are certain areas where extremist bullshit is a way of life, such as Prekaz, in the Drenica region, or Hani i Elezit, south of Ferizaj, near the Macedonian border. Then of course, there is always Mitrovica way up north. That place is always good for creating extremist shitheads.