Hack Brief: ISIS Data Breach Identifies 22,000 Members

Wired
By: Andy Greenberg

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As Snowden taught the NSA, a single insider can obliterate the data security of even the most secretive organizations. Now ISIS may have sprung a Snowden-sized leak of its own, one that could give security agencies fighting the brutal terrorist group some highly useful intelligence…

A leak of 22,000 ISIS fighters’ information would represent a significant chunk of the group’s roster. Though the total number of ISIS fighters is unclear—and reports vary widely—the research firm Soufan Group says that foreign fighters makes up the majority of ISIS ranks and estimates their number at between 19,000 and 25,000, down from an estimate of 31,000 three months ago. Sky News reports that the leak does in fact contain the information of known ISIS recruits, such as the British former rapper Abdel Bary and the hacker Junaid Hussain, who was killed in a drone strike last summer…

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