IS hacker Ardit Farizi obtained info on 1,351 U.S military personnel

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police have arrested a man on charges of hacking into the personal information of more than a thousand U.S. security officials and handing the database to the Islamic State militant group in Syria so it could target the individuals.

The 20-year-old from Kosovo, who entered Malaysia in August 2014 to study computer science and forensics at a private institute in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, will be extradited to the United States, police said in a statement on Thursday night.

“Early investigation found the suspect communicated with one of the right hand man (leader) of IS terrorist group in Syria to hack a few servers containing information and details of U.S securities personnel and team,” Malaysian police said.

“The details were then transferred to the operation unit of the IS group for further action.”

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