Conflict Incident Report

Syrian man arrested for hacking social media accounts

Date of incident:

January 9, 2018

Death toll:

0persons

Number of Injured:

0persons

Actors/Parties Involved:

Syrian Civilians/Refugees

Internal Security Forces (ISF)

The Internal Security Forces arrested 21-year old Syrian national who hacked into several social media accounts and threatened their users of sharing their photos, the ISF said in a statement.

“Information was obtained by the Cybercrime and Intellectual Property Bureau about an unknown person having hacked electronic accounts on social networking sites, stealing information about their owners, communicating with them and threatening to publish their photographs and videos and extort them financially,” said the statement.

The Bureau was able to identify the suspect and arrested him on 9/1/2018 in Beirut's Sabra and Shatila neighborhoods.

He was arrested while receiving money for his fraudulent operations.

He admitted during investigations that he had attempted to hack about 350 electronic accounts, effectively hacking 50 of them.

This security incident was mapped according to the closest possible location.

Source Link:

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/240836-man-held-for-hacking-so…

Primary category:

Arrest/Detention

Classification of conflict (primary):

Individual acts of violence

Violent incidents which do not have a specific or a known political agenda but are caused by the general proliferation of weapons, of trained and untrained soldiers or militants, by the general inefficiency of the Justice system, and past-traditions and histories of violence within society.

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Syrian man arrested for hacking social media accounts