Is The TalkTalk Hack a Jihadist Attack?

Rumours have circulated on social media about the notorious LulzSec hacking group being responsible for breaking in to the telecoms company TalkTalk’s customer data.  Now, Islamic extremists have claimed responsibility for the hack on the UK broadband provider, revealing another strand in the web of funding that pays for a campaign of terror.
 
Jihadists who have also claimed responsibility for the massive hack attack on broadband provider TalkTalk claim to have begun their 'cyber holy war' on the UK. Russian-based Islamic extremists said they were the ones who carried out the “significant and sustained cyber attack” on the British company.

Their claims come after TalkTalk boss Dido Harding said she had received a ransom message.
She said: "I personally received a contact from someone purporting, as I say I don’t know whether they are or are not, to be the hacker looking for money."

And then hours later the Jihadi cyber hackers shared a message online that read: "We have made our tracks untraceable through onion routing, encrypted chat messages, private key emails, hacked servers.
"We will teach our children to use the web for Allah. Your hands will be covered in blood. Judgement Day is soon."
 
TalkTalk admits that it does not know how many customers are affected - nor if their personal data is encrypted.
But it is now feared that the attack could be one of many examples in which terror groups like ISIS fund their sick crimes.
British OAPs are being duped by jihadist cold-callers to help fund terrorism in the Middle East.

The London-based tricksters - who may or may not be acting independently of the supposed hackers - pose as police or bank staff and claim their victim’s account is compromised, before sending fake couriers to collect bank cards and details. Their cash is then plundered, the Financial Action Task Force has warned. Some people in Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Bedfordshire, Kent and London, have been hit so far. But these hacks cannot be carried out by anyone - terror organisations need to recruit experts.

Scores of computer experts, are thought to have been recruited by ISIS, to plunder millions from UK banks and businesses in recent months. The jihadist group spreading death and mayhem across Iraq and Syria is already the world’s richest rebel organisation with more than £1.5billion at its disposal.

British hacker Junaid Hussain, 20, jailed in 2012 for stealing personal information from Tony Blair and posting it online, was thought earlier this year to have been masterminding a plan to bring in countless millions more.

Hussain, from Birmingham, travelled to Syria last year while supposedly under police supervision. He was believed to be teaching other hackers how to crack the code used to safeguard passwords and sensitive information - however reports in August claimed that he was killed in a US airstrike. 

The hackers haven't just targeted TalkTalk.They're known to have gone after big accounts belonging to businesses, VIPs and celebrities from around the world. Last year, a source told the Mirror: "This is a new dawn of warfare. This is not a sporadic operation.

"The hackers are targeting the accounts of the rich and famous, VIP clients of banks and big businesses. This is an international fraud on an unprecedented scale and the result could be a bottomless pit of money to fund their campaign of terror."

Thanks to the instability in the region, ISIS militants were able to seize control of large Syrian oil fields. This has allowed the terror group to trade with middlemen hoping to make a large amount of cash. But authorities say they are trying to crack down on those involved in oil trade with ISIS.
"The middlemen, traders, refiners, transport companies, and anyone else that handles [ISIS's] oil should know that we are hard at work identifying them, and that we have tools at hand to stop them," David Cohen, the undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at the US treasury, has said.

In the aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, Sunni militants joined with Saddam Hussein’s former generals to form a powerful alliance which has gone on to become ISIS. An alliance whose tentackes extend into cyberspace and directly into the homes  and bank accounts of TalkTalk's British customers.

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