[2016-05-18] Arstechnica: Hacking Team hacker steals €10K in Bitcoin, sends it..

[pawel7777]

Hacking Team hacker steals €10K in Bitcoin, sends it to Kurdish anticapitalists in Rojava

http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/05/robin-hood-hacker-rojava-syria-bitcoin-donation/

The hacker who claimed responsibility for both the Gamma Group and Hacking Team breaches has struck again, this time sending €10,000 (about £8,000) of allegedly stolen Bitcoin to Rojava, an autonomous region in northern Syria that they described as "one of the most inspiring revolutionary projects in the world today."

The hacker, who goes by the pseudonyms "Phineas Phisher," "Hack Back!" and "@GammaGroupPR," declined to name the victims of the heist, saying he'd "rather not yet, since there's hopefully a few orders of magnitude more on the way."

If true, Rojava could soon be the beneficiary of a cool million in Bitcoin.
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[Kprawn]

Is this a confirmed hack or just a PR stunt to highlight the Rojava situation? How can you justify stealing coins from someone and then donating those coins to a "good" cause? I do not want to take

sides on this issue, because I can see merit in some of the things they are doing... but I fail to see how funding from stolen coins will benefit their cause. They not funding terrorism, but it's still very

controversial what they doing. Well, whatever this is... it's not good for Bitcoin, because the shills will be having a field day with this and the losers will be the Bitcoin community.