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Belgium: US youth in Pittsburgh linked to cyberattack on Brussels airport
AP via WPXI ^ | February 9, 2017

Posted on 02/09/2017 7:09:33 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

BRUSSELS (AP) - Belgian authorities say that a U.S. youth in Pittsburgh tried to hack into the Brussels airport computer system and disable it the night after the March 22 attacks that killed 32 people.

The federal prosecutor's office said in a statement Thursday that at its request, the FBI interrogated the American minor and said he confessed. The statement said the hacking attempt was unsuccessful and stressed that "it appeared there were no terrorist motives."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 201603; 20160322; airlinesecurity; airports; airportsecurity; belgium; brussels; cyberattack; cyberwarfare; hacking; pittsburg; pittsburgh
"No terrorist motives"? Huh?
1 posted on 02/09/2017 7:09:33 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

2 posted on 02/09/2017 7:25:07 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Why is this suddenly news now, almost a year later?


3 posted on 02/09/2017 7:36:52 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Agree.

Maybe no proof it is an ISIS directed terrorist act but shutting down the airport computers is by definition a terrorist act.


4 posted on 02/09/2017 7:48:21 AM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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“said he confessed”

Never talk to the police.


5 posted on 02/09/2017 8:59:35 AM PST by fruser1
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