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Kuwait Court Drops Case Against Notorious Pentagon Hacker

Posted on July 22, 2024 by Dissent

Asharq Al-Awsat reports:

The Kuwaiti Court of Cassation upheld on Sunday the dismissal of criminal charges against a notorious Kuwaiti hacker who had infiltrated hundreds of websites around the world, including the US Department of Defense’s (Pentagon) website.

The Court of Cassation, the highest judicial authority, affirmed a previous ruling by the Court of Appeals that the 28-year-old defendant could not be prosecuted for the allegations in this case, which occurred 10 years ago.

[…]

The court’s decision to drop the charges against the hacker was based on the principle that the accused could not be tried for accusations committed over 10 years ago, as the acts were carried out from 2010 to 2012.

Read more at Asharq Al-Awsat. 

News coverage does not report when the individual was first identified as the hacker or when Kuwait first attempted to prosecute him, but it appears that the first attempt to prosecute was in 2023. He had been arrested in London and extradited to Kuwait, where he was detained in custody awaiting trial. DataBreaches does not know whether the US ever applied to the UK to extradite him to the U.S., or whether they can apply to Kuwait now to extradite him here.

 

 

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