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IP: Sudan Bank Hacked, Bin Laden Info Found
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 09:47:53 -0400
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170588.html Sudan Bank Hacked, Bin Laden Info Found - Hacker E-Mail This Article Printer-Friendly Version By Ned Stafford, Newsbytes MUNICH, GERMANY, 27 Sep 2001, 2:46 PM CST A group of U.K.-based hackers has cracked computers at the AlShamal Islamic Bank in Sudan and collected data on the accounts of the Al Qaeda terrorist organization and its leader Osama bin Laden, Kim Schmitz, a flamboyant German hacker/businessman, has claimed. Schmitz, who has offered a $10 million reward for the capture of bin Laden, told Newsbytes that the information has been turned over to the FBI. Bin Laden, a millionaire Saudi exile whose base is now Afghanistan, is suspected of being the driving force behind the deadly Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon with hijacked planes. Newsbytes could not confirm Schmitz's claim. An FBI spokesman in Washington declined to confirm or deny the story, saying that the agency's policy is not to comment on information and leads it is receiving. "We have received a lot of information on this case," he told Newsbytes. "Of course we appreciate the leads we are receiving from the public, but we cannot confirm what specific information has been provided to us or by whom." Schmitz, 27, a former teen hacking prodigy who spent time behind bars before starting a successful data security business, has been accused of being press hungry. He says his recent strong anti-terrorism pronouncements are not a PR prank, but stem from his strong desire to wipe out terrorism. He says he has received death threats from the Middle East. The bank Schmitz claimed was hacked was mentioned Wednesday by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. during a Senate Banking Committee hearing. According to CNN, Levin referred to a 1996 State Department report that said bin Laden had provided the AlShamal Islamic Bank with $50 million in start-up capital. Schmitz told Newsbytes that he could not provide details about what hackers found in AlShamal Islamic Bank's computers or about the hackers themselves.
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