Hacking Team Hacked, 400Gb info dump to torrent

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surprised this has not been posted here.

yesterday morning I fired up twitter and was amused to see an account called 'hacking team' who I thought were making sarcastic tweets about 'publishing the biggest transparency report ever'.

finally the penny dropped and it transpired hacking team (an Italian based hack for hire company with no ethics) has itself been hacked.

Their corporate twitter account was used to alter their bio to read 'hacked team' and tweet things like 'I'm expecting an awkward conference call tomorrow'

400 Gig of client lists, invoices, emails and malware tools being released as a torrent; this also includes passwords to vps, anonymizers and remote control software which they sold to regimes and law enforcement around the world, which was itself not only 'watermarked' but contained a backdoor
meaning they could also spy on their clients and see who the clients were spying on.

it's a lot to piece together but in my opinion the funniest parts are on twitter where various people in the cyber security industry deride them for having passwords like 'passw0rd'

https://www.privacyinternational.org/?q=node/618

http://www.theguardian.com/technolo...g-tools-to-repressive-regimes-documents-claim


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DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE ARCHIVE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_Brown was arrested and charged for linking to archives relating to the HBGary hack (amongst other things). He's now doing time for it (63 months).

“In all the trials I’ve been a part of … and they’re all complex cases … I’ve never seen a judge take a time-out to issue his sentence,” Ghappour said on the eve of today’s sentencing in a phone interview. The move gave him hope that the judge was taking extra care to get the sentencing right and not be unduly swayed by the government’s forceful arguments. That proved not to be the case today, however, when it appeared that the judge had indeed been persuaded by prosecutors. The judge reportedly indicated that he believed linking to the file containing stolen credit card numbers was the same as trafficking in stolen data. The judge reportedly concluded that linking to the data was a form of aiding the Stratfor hackers and therefore part of the conspiracy.
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http://www.wired.com/2015/01/barrett-brown-sentenced-5-years-prison-connection-stratfor-hack/
 
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lol pgp passphrase.

mine is huge about 100 characters and it's not a chapter from the bible or from any book either :P
 
HBGary, did they invent the software that enables 1 operative to operate 100's of apparently real forum or social media profiles for the controling of populations moods and actions, as is done in colour revolutions and other yank perfidiousness?
 
arknor said:
lol pgp passphrase.

mine is huge about 100 characters and it's not a chapter from the bible or from any book either :P
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Just goes to show you though doesn't it - doesn't matter how good your encryption is, humans will always be the weak link in the chain if they're in the chain.
 
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HBGary, did they invent the software that enables 1 operative to operate 100's of apparently real forum or social media profiles for the controling of populations moods and actions, as is done in colour revolutions and other yank perfidiousness?
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Nope. The fella who ran it was allegedly using social media to find the connections between hackers/anonymous and compile a dossier of their identities. He said he'd infiltrated anonymous and had the identities of lots of members. He was planning on selling that data to the feds and the like. In retaliation anonymous turned round and broke into, ransacked and stole a ton of data from HBGary.

The leaks from the data revealed some big companies and government departments working with HBGary to spy on people.

The Stratfor hack was embarrassing because Stratfor is a security/intelligence company, but they were keeping database details in plain text (no hashing or salting of passwords or credit card details). Anonymous all ended up ****ed in the end after Sabu turned snitch on those involved (he was facing 120+ years if he didn't co-operate though, so can't really blame him).
 
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Lol so funny. I am glad they were targeted. These companies helping to turn the west in to a police state can all get hacked. I bet it was western intelligence that are behind it. They probably not happy that they are selling their products to foreign gov and use anonymous as their cover.
 
Hehe, one time I installed a keylogger on the family computer, so we could see what my sister was doing... I mean, I am not a hacker, whistles & uses Jedi mind trick "you heard nothing"... :D
 
I wonder how this occurred - disgruntled ex employee with inside information or they just had some technical weakness that was exploited
 
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