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mustafa al bassam wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 early life and education 2 hacktivism toggle hacktivism subsection 2 1 arrest and legal proceedings 3 career and research toggle career and research subsection 3 1 distributed ledgers 3 2 privacy and surveillance 4 awards and honours 5 references toggle the table of contents mustafa al bassam 3 languages مصرى 한국어 kiswahili edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia iraqi british computer hacker and co founder of lulzsec mustafa al bassam mustafa al bassam giving a talk at the 34th chaos communication congress 2017 born january 1995 age 31 baghdad iraq other name tflow citizenship british iraqi education king s college london university college london awards forbes 30 under 30 scientific career fields computer science thesis securely scaling blockchain base layers 2020 doctoral advisor george danezis mustafa al bassam born january 1995 is an iraqi british computer security researcher hacker and co founder of celestia labs 1 al bassam co founded the hacker group lulzsec in 2011 which was responsible for several high profile breaches 2 3 he later went on to co found chainspace a company implementing a smart contract platform which was acquired by facebook in 2019 4 5 in 2021 al bassam graduated from university college london completing a phd in computer science with a thesis on securely scaling blockchain base layers 6 7 in 2016 forbes listed al bassam as one of the 30 under 30 entrepreneurs in technology 8 early life and education edit al bassam was born in baghdad iraq in january 1995 and migrated to london united kingdom when he was five years old 9 he received a bsc in computer science from king s college london 10 11 and subsequently completed a phd at university college london 12 hacktivism edit main article lulzsec in 2011 as a 16 year old teenager al bassam was one of the six core members of lulzsec during its 50 day hacking spree going by the alias tflow the group used denial of service attacks and compromised a number of high profile organizations and corporations including sony fox news international nintendo and the cia 3 he was also affiliated with the online association of hacktivists known as anonymous where he was involved with the hacking of emails from hbgary federal an intelligence contractor for the u s government 13 the emails revealed that hbgary federal was working to develop astroturfing software to create an army of fake social media profiles 14 and was hired by the u s chamber of commerce to spy on and smear political opponents with fake documents and communications 15 as a result members of the u s congress called for an investigation into hbgary federal 15 arrest and legal proceedings edit on 20 july 2011 it was announced on fox news and other press outlets 16 17 18 that london s metropolitan police had arrested a 16 year old student in london who was alleged to have used the nickname tflow in a series of high profile attacks on fox com 19 the fbi affiliate infragard 20 pbs 21 22 and sony 23 for legal reasons his name could not be disclosed for nearly two more years on 9 april 2013 tflow s full name was revealed along with his picture on multiple news outlets throughout the internet 24 he pleaded guilty to computer misuse and received a 20 month suspended sentence with 320 hours of unpaid community service work 25 a nearly two year internet ban imposed by police has since expired 26 27 career and research edit distributed ledgers edit al bassam has published research on scaling blockchains and cryptocurrencies 28 he contributed to the design and implementation of chainspace a blockchain protocol that makes use of sharding to increase transaction throughput 29 chainspace was later spun out into a commercial company he co founded and was then acquired by facebook in 2019 to become a part of the libra project 4 5 al bassam has since been critical of libra stating that the road to dystopia is paved with good intentions and i m concerned about libra s model for decentralization 4 privacy and surveillance edit in 2014 al bassam volunteered for privacy international 2 where he released research on the computer destruction techniques that gchq used when forcing journalists at the guardian s london headquarters to destroy the computers on which they stored copies of classified documents provided by nsa whistleblower edward snowden 30 in an article for motherboard he revealed that gchq s joint threat research intelligence group jtrig had been involved with online sockpuppetry by creating a series of fake twitter accounts and an url shortener which was used as a honeypot for dissidents during the arab spring having been targeted by jtrig himself 31 awards and honours edit in 2016 al bassam was listed in the forbes 30 under 30 in the technology section for his work on uncovering government surveillance 8 wikimedia commons has media related to mustafa al bassam references edit celestia celestia org retrieved 29 august 2022 1 2 coleman e gabriella 1973 2014 hacker hoaxer whistleblower spy the many faces of anonymous london isbn 9781781685839 oclc 890807781 cite book cs1 maint location missing publisher link cs1 maint multiple names authors list link cs1 maint numeric names authors list link 1 2 robertson adi 16 may 2013 lulzsec hackers sentenced to between one and three years in prison by uk court the verge retrieved 21 july 2019 1 2 3 field matthew 26 june 2019 the tiny uk start up founded by ucl scientists now at the heart of facebook s libra currency the telegraph issn 0307 1235 retrieved 21 july 2019 1 2 facebook makes first blockchain acquisition with chainspace sources cheddar 4 february 2019 retrieved 21 july 2019 al bassam mustafa 28 december 2020 securely scaling blockchain base layers ucl university college london mustafa al bassam research homepage www0 cs ucl ac uk retrieved 29 august 2022 1 2 mustafa al bassam forbes retrieved 21 july 2019 miller carl researcher on social media 2018 the death of the gods the new global power grab london isbn 9781785151330 oclc 1051237704 cite book cs1 maint location missing publisher link bano shehar mustafa al bassam and george danezis the road to scalable blockchain designs usenix login magazine 2017 cyber defence unit may use hackers 22 october 2013 retrieved 21 july 2019 despite high profile hacks companies still aren t behaving securely ex lulzsec hacker www cso com au retrieved 21 july 2019 bright peter 10 march 2012 with arrests hbgary hack saga finally ends ars technica retrieved 21 july 2019 monbiot george 23 february 2011 the need to protect the internet from astroturfing grows ever more urgent george monbiot the guardian issn 0261 3077 retrieved 21 july 2019 1 2 fogarty kevin 4 march 2011 congress eyes dirty tricks from hbgary chamber of commerce itworld retrieved 21 july 2019 leading member of lulzsec hacker squad arrested in london fox news 19 july 2011 retrieved 30 october 2013 bright peter 20 july 2011 fbi arrests 16 anons across us uk police pick up lulzsec member ars technica retrieved 30 october 2013 hacker arrests may have included core member of lulzsec forbes 19 july 2011 retrieved 30 october 2013 fox com hacked by group lulz security huffingtonpost com 10 may 2011 retrieved 30 october 2013 satter raphael g 5 june 2011 lulzsec hackers claim breach of fbi affiliate infragard atlanta huffingtonpost com retrieved 30 october 2013 pbs website hacked defaced after wikileaks documentary evokes online ire latimesblogs latimes com 30 may 2011 retrieved 30 october 2013 sites hacked readers data not compromised pbs newshour 30 may 2011 archived from the original on 1 june 2011 retrieved 30 october 2013 albanesius chloe 3 june 2011 sony lulzsec hack what you need to know pcmag com retrieved 30 october 2013 mustafa al bassam nakedsecurity sophos com archived from the original on 1 november 2013 retrieved 30 october 2013 how i hacked the us government aged 16 minutes with ladbible tv 30 may 2021 retrieved 11 september 2021 mustafa al bassam musalbas on twitter twitter com retrieved 30 october 2013 were you banned from the internet for two years like jake davis ask fm musalbas ask fm archived from the original on 31 october 2013 retrieved 30 october 2013 mustafa al bassam google scholar citations scholar google com retrieved 21 july 2019 al bassam mustafa sonnino alberto bano shehar hrycyszyn dave danezis george 2018 chainspace a sharded smart contracts platform pdf proceedings 2018 network and distributed system security symposium san diego ca internet society doi 10 14722 ndss 2018 23241 isbn 9781891562495 s2cid 1360317 cite journal cs1 maint periodical has isbn link mclaughlin jenna 26 august 2015 the way gchq obliterated the guardian s laptops may have revealed more than it intended the intercept retrieved 21 july 2019 al bassam mustafa 29 july 2016 british spies used a url shortener to honeypot arab spring dissidents vice retrieved 21 july 2019 v t e hacking in the 2010s 2000s timeline of security hacking incidents timeline of computer viruses and worms 2020s major incidents 2010 operation aurora publication of 2009 events australian cyberattacks operation olympic games operation shadownet operation payback operation socialist 2011 canadian government diginotar dnschanger hbgary federal operation antisec playstation network outage rsa securid compromise 2012 linkedin hack stratfor email leak operation high roller 2013 south korea cyberattack snapchat hack cyberterrorism attack of june 25 2013 yahoo data breach singapore cyberattacks 2014 anthem medical data breach operation tovar 2014 celebrity nude photo leak 2014 jpmorgan chase data breach 2014 sony pictures hack russian hacker password theft 2014 yahoo data breach 2015 office of personnel management data breach hackingteam ashley madison data breach talktalk data breach vtech data breach ukrainian power grid cyberattack swift banking hack 2016 bangladesh bank robbery hollywood presbyterian medical center ransomware incident commission on elections data breach democratic national committee cyber attacks vietnam airport hacks dccc cyber attacks indian bank data breaches surkov leaks dyn cyberattack russian interference in the 2016 u s elections 2016 bitfinex hack 2017 shattered 2017 macron e mail leaks wannacry ransomware attack westminster data breach petya and notpetya 2017 ukraine ransomware attacks equifax data breach deloitte breach disqus breach 2018 trustico atlanta cyberattack british airways data breach singhealth data breach 2019 sri lanka cyberattack baltimore ransomware attack bulgarian revenue agency hack whatsapp snooping scandal jeff bezos phone hacking incident hacktivism anonymous associated events cyberberkut gnaa goatse security lizard squad lulzraft lulzsec new world hackers nullcrew ourmine paypal 14 redhack teamp0ison tdo ugnazi ukrainian cyber alliance groups appin bangladesh black hat hackers bureau 121 charming kitten cozy bear dark basin darkmatter elfin team equation group fancy bear gossipgirl confederation guccifer 2 0 hacking team helix kitten iranian cyber army islamic state hacking division lazarus group bluenoroff andariel lords of dharmaraja nso group numbered panda pla unit 61398 pla unit 61486 platinum pranknet red apollo rocket kitten stealth falcon syrian electronic army tailored access operations the shadow brokers xdedic yemen cyber army individuals ryan ackroyd mustafa al bassam kim anh vo george hotz guccifer elliott gunton jeremy hammond sam hocevar junaid hussain mlt sabu track2 topiary the jester major vulnerabilities publicly disclosed evercookie 2010 iseeyou 2013 heartbleed 2014 shellshock 2014 poodle 2014 rootpipe 2014 row hammer 2014 ss7 vulnerabilities 2014 winshock 2014 jasbug 2015 stagefright 2015 drown 2016 badlock 2016 dirty cow 2016 cloudbleed 2017 broadcom wi fi 2017 eternalblue 2017 doublepulsar 2017 silent bob is silent 2017 krack 2017 roca vulnerability 2017 blueborne 2017 meltdown 2018 spectre 2018 efail 2018 exactis 2018 speculative store bypass 2018 lazy fp state restore 2018 tlbleed 2018 sigspoof 2018 foreshadow 2018 dragonblood 2019 microarchitectural data sampling 2019 bluekeep 2019 kr00k 2019 malware 2010 bad rabbit black energy 2 blackshades coreflood kelihos stuxnet 2011 citadel andromeda alureon duqu gameover zeus metulji botnet stars zeroaccess botnet 2012 alina carna dexter dridex fbi moneypak flame grum mahdi red october shamoon 2013 blackpos cryptolocker darkseoul havex 2014 brambul black energy 3 carbanak careto darkhotel duqu 2 0 emotet finfisher gameover zeus kronos regin 2015 centerpos flocker hidden tear kasidet rombertik teslacrypt project sauron 2016 fastpos hitler industroyer jigsaw keranger locky necurs memz mirai pegasus petya and notpetya philadelphia punkeypos x agent 2017 brickerbot kirk logiclocker rensenware triton wannacry xafecopy 2018 annabelle joanap vpnfilter 2019 r2d2 tiny banker titanium authority control databases academics mathematics genealogy project 2 zbmath retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title mustafa_al bassam oldid 1372201654 categories 1995 births living people alumni of king s college london alumni of university college london computer security academics british cybercriminals anonymous hacker group activists british freedom of information activists hacktivists iraqi emigrants to the united kingdom hidden categories articles with short description short description is different from wikidata use dmy dates from july 2019 articles with hcards cs1 maint location missing publisher cs1 maint periodical has isbn cs1 maint multiple names authors list cs1 maint numeric names authors list commons category link from wikidata this page was last edited on 30 august 2026 at 21 14 utc page was rendered with parsoid text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike 4 0 license additional terms may apply by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc a non profit organization privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia legal safety contacts code of conduct developers statistics cookie statement mobile view search search toggle the table of contents mustafa al bassam 3 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