TERROR BREAKTHROUGH: Explosive data leak gives security forces info on 22,000 ISIS jihadis

SECURITY forces have seized personal details of more than 22,000 Islamic State jihadis in what has been dubbed counterterrorism's “biggest breakthrough in years”.

SECURITY forces have seized personal details of more than 22,000 Islamic State jihadis in what has been dubbed counterterrorism's “biggest breakthrough in years”.

The huge trove of data includes names, addresses, telephone numbers and family contacts of the terror groups recruits.

It is also thought to include hundreds of British fighters.

The cache of personal information could prove a vital tool in wiping out the sick terror cell, whose members slip in and out of European countries to bring bloodshed to innocent civilians.

One of the accompanying files, reportedly named ‘Martyrs’, includes details of a small army of fighters who were willingly trained to carry out vile suicide attacks.

Richard Barrett, a former MI6 counterterrorism director, said the files could prove to be the “biggest breakthrough in years” in the fight against global terror.

The details were collected as part of Daesh’s induction process, which requires recruits to fill in a 23 question security card.

The questions included their date of birth, marital status, former employment, who recommended them, if they had fought before, their preferred role – such as, "fighter" – and any “specialist skills”.

The leaked names are believed to include Abdel Bary, 26, the son of a convicted terrorist who stepped up to fight for the group after previously working as a UK rap artist.

Will Geddes, managing director of a leading threat management company, said: “They will be in crisis mode, worried about what is in there, who is in there and how it will disrupt their activities”.

The files were reportedly delivered to western officials after a disgruntled recruit – who calls himself Abu Hamed – stole a memory stick from one of the twisted jihadi group’s internal security police.

The recruit later handed the details to Sky News, while claiming that ISIS had been taken over by former soldiers from the Iraqi Baath party, formerly led by Saddam Hussein.

Asked if he felt the files could bring down the terror network, he said: “God willing”.

Security agencies including MI5 and MI6 are currently examining the memory stick’s authenticity.

The 1,736 documents are all stamped with the black flag of the horrific caliphate and reveals jihadis from more than 50 countries with the majority of European fighters coming from France.

They also show the group is hoping to develop its would-be nation around a model of western government, setting up a “border administration” along with other ministries.