ISIS Hacker Killed in U.S. Drone Strike

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Updated Apr. 14, 2017 10:11AM ET / Published Aug. 27, 2015 7:20AM ET

A British citizen who became a well-known ISIS computer hacker was killed in a U.S. drone strike near Raqqa, Syria, sources told Reuters on Wednesday. Junaid Hussain, 21, reportedly moved to Syria from Birmingham in the last two years. He was reportedly behind the CyberCaliphate, a hacking group that targeted the Pentagon’s Twitter account, among others this year, but never appeared to obtain any valuable information. The U.S. government has not officially confirmed his death.

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