Investigators looking into Monday’s hack of U.S. Central Command, YouTube, CNN, and others have pinpointed a UK ISIS defector as a potential suspect in the crime, according to Reuters.
Junaid Hussain—a 20 year old who left Birmingham, England for Syria sometime in the last two years—is thought to be the man in charge of the CyberCaliphate group that perpetrated the hack. Hussain had previously been in prison for six months in 2012 when he hacked the personal address book of former England Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Hussain has taken to Twitter to declare his (relative) innocence:
The hacking group CyberCaliphate is an independent hacking group that supports the state. It is not the official IS hacking group. .
— AbuHussainAlBritani (@AbuHussain1337_) January 14, 2015
They said im a suspect in the beheadings and now they saying im the main suspect in the CENTCOM hack lol desperate journalism? Stupid kuffar
— AbuHussainAlBritani (@AbuHussain1337_) January 14, 2015Regardless of who is behind the attacks, the Pentagon has stressed that no classified information was compromised, and indeed the hack was little more than “inconvenient.”
[via Gawker]
