HackingChild from Pittsburgh admits to hack attempt of Brussels Airport after ISIS attacks

A Pittsburgh child has admitted to launching a cyberattack against Brussels Airport in the aftermath of the 22 Mach 2016 suicide bombing by Belgian ISIS followers, which killed more than thirty people.

The Belgian federal public prosecutor’s office said the suspect aimed to take down the website of the airport operator – the Brussels Airport Company — and “infiltrate the computer system,” but was unsuccessful.

Terror-alert reports that investigators traced the source of the hack to a home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and handed the information to U.S. law enforcement authorities.

“The FBI proceeded to conduct house search in Pittsburgh…and interrogated a minor of American nationality,” a spokesperson for the Belgian federal public prosecutor’s office said. “He confessed.”

FBI agents interviewed the child and seized his desktop and laptop computers, but the evidence has shown no indication of a “terrorist motive” ISIS links, Belgian prosecutors said.

“The Belgian federal public prosecutor’s office therefore wants to emphasize that this case has nothing whatsoever to do with that of the terrorist attacks on 22 March 2016 in Brussels,” a spokesperson added.

Neither the Belgian authorities nor the FBI have released any information on the suspect.

The Belgian prosecutor said that the attempted cyberattack took place hours after two ISIS suicide bombers blew themselves up in the departures lounge of Brussels Airport, killing more than a dozen people.

An hour after the explosions at the airport, another Belgian ISIS follower detonated his explosives on a train at Maalbeek metro station, bringing the total death toll to thirty-five.

The Islamist militants behind the March 2016 attacks in Brussels were members of the cell which carried out the Paris attacks in November 2015, in which 132 people were killed in bombings and shootings.