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DonViejo

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Sun Apr 21, 2013, 07:43 PM Apr 2013

Anonymous Hacker Targeted Bombing Suspect While He Was On The Run

HUNTER WALKER APRIL 20, 2013, 3:31 PM 26406
Police weren’t the only ones hunting bombing suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev Friday afternoon. A hacker claiming to be affiliated with the group Anonymous targeted Tsarmaev while he was still on the run and released a file Friday afternoon that purportedly contained Tsarnaev’s personal information gleaned from the website of his school, UMass Dartmouth.

The hacker, who did not identify him- or herself with a name or digital nom de guerre, posted a file entitled “Terrorist user details, hacked by anonymous!” on the anonymous text-sharing site Pastebin. Included in the file were email addresses and a cellphone number identified as belonging to Tsarnaev. The cellphone number was the same one TPM saw on other sites linked to Tsarnaev.

In addition to his contact information, the file included links to screengrabs that seemed to show his personal pages on the UMass Dartmouth site where the information was supposedly taken from. These pictures displayed a class history for Tsarnaev that matches much of the description of his academic activity that was reported by the New York Times. It showed he had registered for a courseload that included introductory psychology, chemistry, and politics classes.

The hacker added an all-caps message to Tsarnaev, who had not yet been apprehended by authorities when the files were placed online.

“EVERYTHING WILL BE HACKED and I WILL SEND EVERYTHING TO THE POLICE TOO FUCK YOU IF YOU READING THIS SHIT U TERRORIST SCUMBAG,” they wrote.

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/04/anonymous-hacker-targeted-bombing-suspect-while-he-was-on-the-run.php?ref=fpb

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Anonymous Hacker Targeted Bombing Suspect While He Was On The Run (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2013 OP
Hacking his shit and sending it to the feds might be helpful. Making it public is not. Ian David Apr 2013 #1
He'd have to know about Pastebin first. Ikonoklast Apr 2013 #2
Surfing the web was probably not very high on his list of things to do today. nt Stretch714 Apr 2013 #3
You don't think he was going, "OMG, OMG, look how many likes I have on Facebook!" Ian David Apr 2013 #4

Ian David

(69,059 posts)
1. Hacking his shit and sending it to the feds might be helpful. Making it public is not.
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 08:04 PM
Apr 2013

There may have been things that the FBI didn't want the suspect to know that they knew.

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
2. He'd have to know about Pastebin first.
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 10:32 PM
Apr 2013

I think trying not to die from bleeding out was foremost on his mind, though.

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