{"id":38923,"date":"2011-11-28T10:05:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T08:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=38923"},"modified":"2011-11-28T10:06:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T08:06:56","slug":"phone-hacking-link-to-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/38923-phone-hacking-link-to-terrorists.html","title":{"rendered":"Phone hacking link to terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to police officials in the Philippines, four people hacked into the accounts of <a title=\"AT&amp;T\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/359834-AT-amp-T\">AT&amp;T<\/a> business customers in the U.S., and diverted money to a group that finances terrorist attacks in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines Criminal Investigation and Detection Group said that the three men and one woman had been arrested in Manila last week.<\/p>\n<p>The accused were allegedly working with a group called Jemaah Islamiyah, a terrorist group with links to Al Qaeda, who was responsible for the 2002 bombing in Bali which killed 202 people, among other terrorist acts.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/385211-FBI-Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation\">Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)<\/a> said that it was working with police in the Philippines on the investigation into the phone hacking, which apparently began as early as 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects gained remote access to the telephone operating systems of some AT&amp;T customers and used them to call other telephone numbers that would pass on revenue to the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"The New York Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/27\/world\/asia\/4-in-philippines-accused-of-hacking-us-phones-to-aid-terrorists.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four phone hackers in the Philippines hacked into U.S. phones and diverted money to a group that funds Asian terrorism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":29770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2458,7005,7007],"class_list":["post-38923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-att","tag-cellphone-hacking","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38925,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38923\/revisions\/38925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}