A British jihadist fighting with the Islamic State in Iraq is feared to be behind a cyber plot to empty British bank accounts to fund terrorism in the Middle East.
Junaid Hussain, 20, escaped to Syria last year while on police bail, and has been posting extremist messages on social media pledging to conquer the world and kill infidels.
Hussain, who is originally from Birmingham, is pictured online posing with a scarf over his face and a rifle in his hands, and tweets behind the alias Abu Hussain al-Britani.
He was jailed in 2012 for stealing personal information from Tony Blair, and is thought to be putting his hacking skills to use adding to the militants' huge war chest.
According to reports in the Daily Mirror, British financial institutions are aware of the attacks and working overtime to prevent their customers' funds being extracted.
A source told the paper: '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.'
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