AT&T Hackers Have Terrorist Connections, Say Philippines Police

PCWorld ^ | 11-28-11 | John Ribeiro

[bayouranger]

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and police in the Philippines have jointly busted a ring of four alleged hackers in Manila with connections to a terrorist group in Saudi Arabia, the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group of the Philippines police said last week.

FBI agents, who have been investigating the hacking of telecommunication companies in the U.S. and in the country since 1999, have uncovered a "paper trail" of various bank transactions allegedly linking the local hackers to the cell in Saudi Arabia, whose activities include financing terrorist activities, CIDG said in a statement.

The Philippines police and AT&T, however, disagree on whether AT&T's network was hacked, with the telecommunications service provider maintaining that it was the phone systems of some of its customers that were targeted.

The operation last week followed a complaint from AT&T, which suffered losses of up to US$2 million as a result of the hack of its system, the Philippines police agency said.

AT&T, however, said on Monday that AT&T's network was neither targeted nor breached by the hackers, although the phone systems of a number of businesses, including some of its customers, were. "AT&T only assisted law enforcement in the investigation that led to the arrest of the group of hackers," it said in an e-mailed statement.

[bayouranger]

The filthy koranimal's cyber jihad is being outsourced to the brighter kafirs working on commission.

[onedoug]

What´s going unaddressed here is the hackers very probable involvement with the Saudi government.

[bayouranger]

I’m sure there’s 28 pages struck from the report.

[Jeff Chandler]

One of AT&T’s U-Verse Tier I Tech support call centers is in the Philippines. That must be where they got customer’s info.