A hacker group uploaded the non-public info of 1000’s of federal brokers and legislation enforcement officers onto the net after hacking into “FBI-affiliated websites” and web sites linked to no less than one firm, TechCrunch reports.
The hackers reportedly breached three FBI National Academy Association web sites utilizing “public exploits,” downloaded the contents, and uploaded them on their very own web site. The contents reportedly included “4,000 unique records” of names, e-mail addresses, job titles, telephone numbers, and addresses. The group additionally reportedly hacked into one in every of manufacturing firm Foxconn’s subdomains and purchased 1000’s of worker data.
“We hacked more than 1,000 sites,” stated one of many over 10 hackers within the group who spoke to TechCrunch. “Now we are structuring all the data, and soon they will be sold. I think something else will publish from the list of hacked government sites.”
When requested in the event that they have been involved that the information they uploaded might danger the lives of legislation enforcement, the hacker responded, “Probably, yes.”
The hacker additionally claimed to have “over a million data [sic]” collected from the websites, reportedly together with worker info of “several U.S. federal agencies and public service organizations.”
According to the hacker, the group’s finish recreation within the giant hack was “experience and money.”