I expect at some point he will give up the excuse he came up with while panicking and confess that he looked but did not touch, and then never went back. He has also argued in favour of setting up an Islamic caliphate. The account creator could have easily used any fake address for the location if this was the work of a “horny Hamza”. “Read in the name of your Lord”. He explained that he had not looked at his bank statements in detail for many months, and asserted that he was taking the matter up with the police. 8. Personally, it appears as a common case of personal vendetta and foul play, and this happens to millions of people around the world. If you follow 5Pillars, and you understand its importance in today’s climate, then please support us for as little as £5 a month, it only takes a minute to make a donation. I cannot say whether any special offers were emailed out to accounts already paid in full or not, or if anyone nearby matching the criteria had signed up resulting in an email being sent, but if the system was working correctly and the dates in aminno_member were being updated then the data suggests no contact was made with anyone as there are no valid date/times set against the fields bc_mail_last_time, bc_chat_last_time, or reply_mail_last_time. 13. for the Press CIC Determined to get to the bottom of the recent controversy surrounding Hamza Tzortzis and the Ashley Madison data leak, Dilly Hussain says it’s imperative to distinguish fact from fiction. At the time of the hack this profile had no public photos and no private photos associated with it, so a subsequent release of hacked photos will probably not reveal anything (unless some were uploaded then removed, and the server does not physically delete the image files). According to the site’s terms and conditions, it is their way of keeping an account active, which further indicates that the account was not used for any purpose, other than potentially getting Tzortzis into trouble. Subsequently, Tzortzis posted a status on his Facebook page stating that he did not use the infidelity site or pay to use any of its services. This public information would make any identity fraudster’s job significantly easier. It was a mute account for around eight months, with no emails, and if there were any, they had no replies. 10. They would really have had to have done some research to get his weight and height correct, or approximately correct. He probably then forgot all about it and, because he doesn’t check his old email or his card statements, had no idea this website was still taking £15 per month off him for a service he wasn’t using. If he did see the money being taken from his account, why didn’t he stop it if he wasn’t using it? I don’t subscribe to this hypothesis at all, I just wanted to put forward a more balanced article and point out the stupidity of some scenarios being proposed as the only alternative. Journalists and internet trolls who have questioned the plausibility of a fraudster or hack doing this, clearly do not understand how the numbers of identity-theft crimes have soared in recent years, especially with the amount of personal information Tzortzis has on the web. Either its someone in your inner circle or you. To achieve this they would need to know his real name (readily available), home address (readily available at Companies House), his full credit card number, card expiry date, and the 3 digit security number on the back of the card. The site did not send out email confirmations, and the information on the data leak refers to “email campaigns” – not email verifications. The circumstantial evidence clearly implies that Tzortzis did not register and use the account; it clearly supports his argument that this was a case of identity fraud. I can also accept he did not notice the payments coming out of his account via his card. Saudi Arabia starts a trade war on Turkey. Subscribe to our newsletter and stay updated on the latest news and updates! Ustadh Hamza Tzortzis is an intellectual activist actively engaging on issues pertaining to religion, social cohesion and politics. But not all of his followers were convinced by his reasoning. iERA. It wasn’t long before I found an account that seemed to belong to Hamza Andreas Tzortzis. Personally I never check my card statements, I don’t even look at my bank statements to see how much is being paid to my card account. 14. 2. Tzortzis noted however, that in Islam, some of Ashley Madison’s features were “permissible”. The must ask question that keeps propping up is – why would Tzortzis use it if he wanted to have a secret affair? Regarding the information used from Andreas’s credit card: obviously this would be very difficult for someone to obtain, unless of course it was a company credit card in his name, in which case a small number of people within iERA could have had access to that information. But the data shows that never happened. He wrote: My whereabouts and activities, both private and public are traceable and recorded, and there is without any doubt that I have not pursued such immoral acts that the site promotes (this includes permissible acts, for instance the endeavour to find another halal wife [who can also be a non-Muslim] who wanted to be with a married man, which is allowed in Islam). The profile lists Hamza’s correct date of birth (21st of September 1980) but again this information is readily available. Identity crimes still account for over 60% of all frauds (and this is just the UK). After speaking to Tzortzis yesterday evening, he informed me that he wishes to move on from this incident and continue focusing on articulating a “compassionate, intelligent”, yet “assertive case for Islam” to the wider community. The website does not require you to click a confirm link in an email in order to get into the website. Critical comments on Tzortzis’s Facebook page began disappearing late on Saturday night. 5. The server time given for the account creation is 10:09 am, and the last time the account was modified was the same day at 11:43 am. ThisEmailDoesNot@ExistInRealLifeBecauseIJustMadeItUp.com is a valid email address, it just doesn’t exist. 6. The interesting data here is the IP address. Tzortzis’ accountant, who I have also grilled over this matter, has access to his accounts. This reveals a profile number of 29425606. It is possible that Hamza doesn’t check this email address often (or at all), it is very likely an old email address as it does not include any indication of his chosen Muslim name “Hamza”. I contacted the email address registered against the account, sending my name + mobile number and asked the owner to call me, but received no reply. I contacted the email address registered against the account, sending my name + mobile number and asked the owner to call me, but received no reply. Shaykh Hamza Yusuf (born Mark Hanson; 1958) is an American Islamic scholar and co-founder of Zaytuna College. This could be for whatever reason, for example: an administrator changing something, or any of the fields being updated. Spouses making enquiries about their husband’s bank statements has happened to other people and resulted in breakups, way before the database hack: https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/8667906550. Saudi prepares to receive foreign Umrah pilgrims for first time in... We use encrypted SSL bank grade security and don't store any of your financial details. See: https://www.facebook.com/HamzaAndreasTzortzis/posts/1018990934778007 and https://www.facebook.com/HamzaAndreasTzortzis/posts/1018255921518175. My date of birth is known from either previous lectures or Facebook. The reoccurring £15 pounds on Tzortzis’ bank statements were on similar dates every month. It was the 20th of August when I downloaded the hacked Ashley Madison database. Taking into consideration that the AM emails were sent to junk along with other spam mails, this further supports the plausibility of identity fraud. The flag in the database “isvalid” marked against an email address is stored against the user’s emailing preferences. It lists his height as 178cm (5′ 10″), which again I cannot verify but seems about right. 11. This included receiving unusual texts and the phone breaking calls for no apparent reason. So the question one must ask is – why would anyone pay money for site credits and not use them? This would be quite far-fetched if Tzortzis wanted to discretely use the AM site. Last weekend, one of the British Muslim community’s most prominent international speakers and debaters, Hamza Tzortzis, was informed that his email, credit card details and other […] I suggested he should make a public statement explaining what I had found before someone else finds the same information and exposes him. This would have been the initial membership fee. Frankly, I’ve had enough of looking through the DB so that can be an exercise for someone else. From the outset Hamza has denied responsibility for signing up this account, and from the beginning I have told him I do not believe him but would continue to look at the data to see what I could find out. (Table name: amminno_member_email – I will use Y/N instead of 1/0 as per the data), email=a_tzortzis@yahoo.com, isvalid=Y, optin=Y, notify_newmail=Y, notify_newmember=Y, notify_login=Y, notify_offer=Y. Elections: Who is the “lesser evil” between Donald Trump and Joe Biden? It just so happens, that Tzortzis’ next debate is on Tuesday 22 September in my hometown of Bedford, where he’ll be discussing the limitations of free speech against Sarah Cox, the editor of Bedfordshire on Sunday (also my former employers), which I’ll have the pleasure of chairing. Breitbart London took screenshots of some of the more critical ones before they disappeared altogether, which most have as of Sunday morning. Last weekend, one of the British Muslim community’s most prominent international speakers and debaters, Hamza Tzortzis, was informed that his email, credit card details and other personal information were found on the Ashley Madison (AM) leaked database. This is also not true. These include his date of birth, business address, home address, parents’ address, emails, and public profile. I’ve been employed writing business software for about 19 years now, and I disagree. IMPRESS, 16-18 New Bridge Street, Our data expert who’s been following the Ashley Madison data leak since its inception has clarified this issue. Tzortzis explained this to me, which has been substantiated by his friends and family. Another question one must ask is, why would Tzortzis use his business account card and not his personal one? Hamza Andreas Tzortzis is an international public speaker on Islam. If the flag were set to zero by default and only marked 1 when the user followed a link in an email then the system would have to send emails to people with emails marked as isvalid=0 in order for them to become marked as valid. As you say the australian transactions were made when you were there. Accessing someone’s phone, laptop and credit card details is quite common, and the majority of these criminals cannot be identified or charged. It isn’t uncommon for email campaign scripts to assume an email address is valid and exists and then mark it as defunct when “does not exist” email responses come back. They would need to put in extra work to find his parent’s address. As I don’t know the time zone of the server I cannot check what time it would have been in Australia. UK Islamist Hamza Tzortzis ‘Found’ on Ashley Madison Hack List Facebook. It is far more reasonable to assume that Tzortzis didn’t see the small amounts (the description on the bank statements is a set of numbers and the letters “AMBD”, and not anything blatant, and he has similar regular amounts leaving his account on a monthly basis). [21] These were the first words of the Qur’an revealed to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ over 1,400 years ago. I find it a little annoying that the alternative to Andreas signing up is presented as someone else doing it and then hacking the website to expose him, and nothing else is considered. Hamza Andreas Tzortzis’ personal and business details are easily accessible and available online. The alias for the website is set to AndrewT14, most likely a play on Andreas T, but I don’t know for certain what the 14 represents.