The
BBC has an
article about a hacker getting it:
A hacker who passed a list of American military personnel to the so-called Islamic State (IS) could face up to 25 years in jail.
Ardit Ferizi, from Kosovo, pleaded guilty to charges of providing material support to America's enemies in a court hearing in Virginia. The maximum sentence for that crime is twenty years in jail. He could also be sentenced to a further five years in jail for hacking into a federal computer to steal the list.
"Ferizi endangered the lives of over a thousand Americans," said US attorney Dana Boente in a statement from the Department of Justice (DoJ).
The DoJ said: "The case against Ferizi is the first of its kind, representing the nexus of the terror and cyber-threats." It said Ferizi, who is now 21, handed the list to IS, knowing it could incite the group to attack the individuals named in it.
Information about the names, email addresses, passwords, locations and phone numbers for about thirteen hundred military personnel and Federal staff came from several servers that Ferizi hacked into. He targeted both machines in US government offices and corporate computers.
During the court proceedings, Ferizi admitted he had passed the list to Junaid Hussain, a British cyber-expert involved with IS, who was killed in August last year by an air strike.
"I don't know myself why I did this. I still ask myself why I committed this crime," The Washington Post reported he said in court.
Ferizi, who used the Twitter name @Th3Dir3ctorY, was arrested in Malaysia in October of 2015 and extradited to the US in January of 2016.
He is due to be sentenced on 16 September. After he has served his sentence, he will be deported to Kosovo and barred from re-entering the US.
Rico says, no, no, hand amputation on national television... (
That'll keep him from using a computer again...)
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