The Cyber attack on Brussels Airport hours after ISIS attacks

[Bob]

Odd coincidence or something more?

Just hours after the bombing attack on the Brussels Airport, someone was trying to take down the computers at the Brussels Airport.

The FBI eventually traced the hack to a minor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. However they said they found that there was no 'terrorist motive'.

A 14 year old American child has admitted launching a cyber attack targeting Brussels Airport in the wake of Isis suicide bombings that killed more than 30 people.

The Belgian federal public prosecutor’s office said the suspect aimed to take down the Brussels Airport Company website and “infiltrate the computer system” on the night of 22 March 2016 but was unsuccessful.


“The FBI proceeded to conduct house search in Pittsburgh…and interrogated a minor of American nationality,” a spokesperson said. “He confessed.”

Source - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/us-child-hacker-confess-cyber-attack-brussels-airport-isis-attack-pittsburgh-fbi-islamic-state-a7571161.html

and

http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/brussels-attacks

[Chakra]

Guess we know where he is going to go to work when he turns 18 :bigsmile:

[joeecho]

Isn't there cyber attacks/ attempts on organizations happening all the time? It's usually only the ones that compromise important data that make the news.

Could it be that stories like this are a diversionary tactic to something bigger brewing under the surface?

[TargeT]

Guess we know where he is going to go to work when he turns 18 :bigsmile:

We don't hire the ones that get caught ;)

not anymore, anyway.

[NancyV]

Guess we know where he is going to go to work when he turns 18 :bigsmile:

We don't hire the ones that get caught ;)

not anymore, anyway.

You mean not that you KNOW of. :) Although you are probably correct that we don't actually hire (in the normal sense of the word) the ones that get caught, but they do often choose to work for the government rather than accept the alternate choice, which could be rather unpleasant. A few times in his career my husband would pick up and escort one of the ones that were caught to their new place of "employment", which was always way beyond top secret. Who knows what they would do with this kid, since he's so young. But he certainly has shown that he could be increasingly dangerous, if he's not covering for someone else.