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Terrorists Linked to Phone Hacking

NOT THE TABLOIDS

Four people in the Philippines arrested.

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SONNY TUMBELAKA

Perhaps they got the idea from the British tabloids. Four people in the Philippines have been accused of hacking into the phone accounts of AT&T customers in the U.S. to aid terrorists responsible for attacks across Asia, according to local police. The three men and one woman are suspected of working for Jemaah Islamiah, a terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda, and the FBI said similar phone hacking has gone on since 2009. The four are suspected of using the hacked information to divert funds to terrorists.

Read it at The New York Times