A 20-year-old hacker who leaked the personal information of around 1,300 U.S. military and government officials for use in an ISIS “kill list” has been sentenced to 20 years in prison at a federal court in Virginia.
The Department of Justice said Ardit Ferizi, a former computer science student from Kosovo in eastern Europe, pleaded guilty to feeding personal details that included names, phone numbers, emails and passwords to a now deceased ISIS recruiter.
The recruiter, Junaid Hussain, from England, published the names on August 11, 2015 as an ISIS “kill list,” and threatened that members of the terrorist organization planned to “strike at your necks in your own lands.” – READ MORE
