Pro-ISIS hacker pleads guilty to stealing U.S. military data
A 20-year-old Estonia man has pleaded guilty to stealing data on more than 1,300 U.S. military and government personnel and providing it to the Islamic State.
Ardit Ferizi’s goal was to “incite terrorist attacks,” the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.
Ferizi once led a hacking group called Kosova Hacker’s Security, or KHS, which claims to have defaced over 20,000 websites. Last June he hacked into a U.S. Internet hosting company to steal the personnel data, which included addresses, telephone numbers and email logins.
