Overview

• Sheffield Crown Court handed down the sentence after Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky pleaded guilty on March 17 to nine Computer Misuse Act offences.
• NCA analysis of seized devices found personal data for over four million Facebook users plus stolen logins for services including Netflix and PayPal.
• Investigators said he infiltrated and defaced sites such as Yemen’s Foreign Affairs and Security Media ministries, Israeli Live News, the California State Water Board, and faith organizations in the US and Canada.
• The NCA linked him to extremist collectives Spider Team and Yemen Cyber Army following a 2022 arrest prompted by a US law enforcement tip.
• Authorities said he boasted online of hacking 3,000 websites in three months in 2022, a claim they have not verified, and warned the data could enable large-scale fraud.