AT&T Hackers Have Terrorist Connections, Say Philippines Police

The U.S. Northern Bureau of Probe and police in the Philippines have jointly busted a ring of four alleged hackers in Capital of the Philippines with connections to a violent group in Saudi-Arabian Arabia, the Criminal Investigation and Detection Chemical group of the Philippines police said last week.

FBI agents, who have been investigation the hacking of telecommunication companies in the U.S. and in the country since 1999, have uncovered a "paper give chase" of various bank minutes allegedly linking the local hackers to the cell in Saudi Arabian Arabia, whose activities include funding violent activities, CIDG same 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 surgical process last week followed a complaint from AT&T, which suffered losings of up to US$2 million as a result of the plug of its system, the Philippines police force agency said.

AT&T, however, aforementioned connected Monday that AT&T's net was neither targeted nor breached by the hackers, although the telephone set systems of a number of businesses, including some of its customers, were. "AT&ere;T only assisted jurisprudence enforcement in the investigating that led to the arrest of the group of hackers," it said in an e-mailed financial statement.

The company said it wrote off some fraudulent charges that appeared on customers' bills. As AT&T was neither targeted nor breached, those were the only when damages it suffered, the company said. "We are non commenting on an amount," IT added.

AT&T said last week that there was an attack to obtain information on a number of AT&T client accounts, but aforesaid it did not believe that the perpetrators of the attack obtained access to users' online accounts.

The of import of the Anti-Transnational and Cyber Crime Division (ATCCD) social unit of CIDG, police senior super, Sir William Gilber Sosa, did non return calls connected Monday. The FBI did non in real time reply to a request for comment.

Terrorists Allegedly Hired Hackers

The Philippines police said the group of one Mohammed Zamir, a Jemaah Islamiyah penis, paid the suspects to hack the tree trunk-production line of different telecommunication companies including AT&T. Revenue derivative from the hacking was entertained to the account of the terrorists, who paid the Filipino hackers a commission done localised banks, CIDG said.

Malaysia Militant Grou is an Islamic competitive group that has been active in South Eastern United States Asia and is said to be linked to some terrorist attacks in the region, including the Bali bombing in 2002.

Zamir was arrested in Italy in 2007 by FBI operatives but his group continues to move, and was late labeled by the FBI to be the business author of the terrorist attack in Mumbai, India on November 26, 2008. Aft Zamir's pick up, an unknown Asian country national took charge of the surgical process of the group, and also maintained links with the group of hackers in Manila paper, CIDG said.

In Adjoin, FBI requested the assistance of ATCCD after it found that the terrorist group had targeted AT&T in the U.S., and the same group of Filipino hackers was interested, CIDG aforementioned.

John Ribeiro covers outsourcing and general applied science breaking newsworthiness from India for The IDG News show Service. Follow John on Twitter at @Johnribeiro. John's netmail address is john_ribeiro@idg.com

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