Overview

• Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky pleaded guilty to nine offences under the Computer Misuse Act and was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court.
• Investigators seized his laptop and mobile devices in 2022 and matched his social media and email accounts to hacktivist groups Spider Team and the Yemen Cyber Army.
• Forensic analysis uncovered the personal data of over four million Facebook users and login credentials for services such as Netflix and PayPal on his devices.
• He admitted to defacing websites including Israeli Live News and Yemen’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and may have breached as many as 3,000 sites in 2022.
• The NCA credited a US tip-off for his arrest and warned that the aggregated data could fuel large-scale identity fraud by extremist cyber actors.