A 20-year-old foreign student who allegedly hacked into U.S. servers and passed information to Islamic State militants has been arrested in Malaysia, police said on Friday.
The suspect, who is awaiting extradition to the U.S., was arrested last month on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, police chief Inspector General Khalid Abu Bakar said in a statement.
The suspect allegedly hacked into several US computer servers to gather information about US security forces and passed it on to a ranking Islamic State leader in Syria, Khalid said.
The suspect is a native of Kosovo who came to Malaysia in August 2014 to study computer science and forensic computing, another police source said.
According to an anonymous source, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation tipped off Malaysian authorities about the suspect’s illicit activities. (dpa/NAN).