Mohammed Peerbhoy – Yahoo! paid for this?
The news is just breaking out of India currently, but coming to the surface is news that Yahoo! may have been responsible for training of the media chief in the Mumbai attacks. While the below quote states he was a former Yahoo! employee …
A former Yahoo engineer named Mohammed Peerbhoy, is under custody in Delhi on charges that he is the alleged “media chief” of the Indian Mujahideen, a terror group charged with the September 2008 bombings.
… should companies such as Yahoo! be held accountable? Should they have possibly done some better background screening before paying good money to train this person?
Peerbhoy learned “hacking skills” as a six-day course on information security in Hyderabad in May 2007 given by the “E2 Labs’ School of Ethical Hacking.” Yahoo reportedly paid 70,000 Rupees – about $1,349 at the current exchange rate – for Peerbhoy to take the course.
Will this signal Yahoo’s final downward spiral? It will be interesting to see the response from Yahoo’s media team, but you can start discussing it now.
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