Kim Anh Vo (born 1998 or 1999) is an American hacker who did and assisted operations for theIslamic State Hacking Division throughout 2016 and 2018. She was associated with the sector called Kalachnikv E-Security Team where she also helped recruit others to join the group.[1]
Vo was born on 1998 or 1999 inGeorgia, United States, where she lived and attended school inHephzibah, with her high school being 20 minutes south west ofAugusta. She loved using computers and showed interest inprogramming, she would spend most of her time after school using her computer. She also showed interest in working ininformation technology for theFederal Bureau of Investigation.[2]
During her time with the computer, she joined the United Cyber Caliphate, also known as the Islamic State Hacking Division in April 2016[3] and helped assist with operations to release confidential and private information about people, including soldiers of theUnited States Armed Forces, indata dumps calledkill lists.[4] She also spreadIslamic State propaganda andmemes in support of the Islamic State. She went by the alias' of F@ng, Zozo, Miss. Bones, and Kitty Lee. She recruited a 14-year-old Norwegian boy to join the division in which he then called for attacks against people inNew York.[5] She and the boy, making a video, threatened anonprofit organization that sought to battle what it called extremist ideologies, including theideologies of the Islamic State.[6] She also spread propaganda telling others to kill people in New York andBrooklyn as well, with a list of 8,700 U.S. citizens' information being released as another "kill list", she made chats in Islamic State chatrooms about the situation and made social media posts stating "We want them#Dead".[7][8]
On March 12, 2019, Vo was arrested in her home after being officially indicted on charges ofproviding material support to a foreign terrorist organization as a violation of thePatriot Act by a New Yorkfederal judge.[9] She was kept as a prisoner in the South District of New York.[10] In April 2020, Vo was grantedbail which was set at $25,000 and was signed by her mother and a family friend which will let her be released onhouse arrest inEvans, Georgia, with monitoring of her electronics and strict supervision with mental health and therapy sessions viatelemedicine with her only being allowed to travel to the south New York and Georgiafederal judicial districts and all points in between necessary for travel between the districts.[11]
