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Hacking Team hacker steals €10K in Bitcoin, sends it to Kurdish anticapitalists in Rojava

Posted on May 18, 2016 by Dissent

J. M. Porup reports:

The hacker who claimed responsibility for both the Gamma Group and Hacking Team breaches has struck again, this time sending €10,000 (about £8,000) of allegedly stolen Bitcoin to Rojava, an autonomous region in northern Syria that they described as “one of the most inspiring revolutionary projects in the world today.”

The hacker, who goes by the pseudonyms “Phineas Phisher,” “Hack Back!” and “@GammaGroupPR,” declined to name the victims of the heist, saying he’d “rather not yet, since there’s hopefully a few orders of magnitude more on the way.”

Read more on Ars Technica.

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