A 26-year old in the UK who claimed to have hacked thousands of websites was sentenced to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty earlier this year.
Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky of Rotherham, UK, was arrested in 2022 based on information received from U.S. law enforcement and charged for stealing log in details of millions of Facebook users, and hacking websites belonging to the government in Yemen, an Israeli news outlet, and organizations in the U.S. and Canada.
Al-Mashriky pleaded guilty to the charges this year on March 17. He was linked to extremist groups such as ‘Spider Team’ and ‘Yemen Cyber Army’
According to authorities in the U.K., Mashriky claimed on a forum to have hacked more than 3,000 websites. However, the figure was not verified by the investigation.
Analyzed forensic evidence has shown that Al-Mashriky has:
Infiltrated the website of the Yemen Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Yemen Ministry of Security Media
Deployed tools on Yemeni government websites to scan for usernames and vulnerabilities
Hacked into Israeli Live News, accessing admin pages, and downloaded the entire site
Targeted faith websites in Canada and the U.S.
Targeted the California State Water Board website
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