Hacker Reportedly Kidnaps and Tortures Informant, Posts Picture as a W arning to Others

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via Threat Level.

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A Turkish computer hacker who was helping that country's media and national
police investigate computer crimes was kidnapped and tortured by a
notorious ATM hacker, according to a report from the Turkish press.

The victim, known online as "Kier," had been leaking information to Turkish
reporters about an underground figure called Cha0, when he briefly
disappeared. He resurfaced in May, and described being abducted and beaten
by Cha0 and his henchmen.

A photo of Kier stripped down to his underwear and seated in a chair
surfaced on the online crime forum DarkMarket, according to a source there,
who provided a copy of the photo. Kier is seen holding a sign that reads in
part: "I am rat. I am pig. I am reporter. I am fucked by Cha0."

Kier disappeared again shortly after describing his ordeal to two reporters
at Turkey's Haber 7, according to the report. In his last e-mail to the
reporters, he claimed that Cha0 is protected by a relationship with Turkish
officials. "I always had a question mark on my mind on where Cha0's men got
the resources," Kier wrote the reporters in Turkish. "I found out firsthand
when I had a weapon pointed at my head."

Cha0 sent the kidnap photo to Haber 7, but later denied any role on Kier's
more recent disappearance. Cha0 then  vanished himself, and Haber 7 reports
that he might be in police custody. 

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More:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/hacker-reported.html

- - ferg

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