Anonymous hacking group breaks into US law enforcement sites. By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 12:03 GMT, 7 August 2011 The group known as Anonymous today said that it hacked into around 70 law enforcement websites in the United States - a data breach that one local police chief said leaked sensitive information about an ongoing investigation.
The loose-knit international hacking collective posted a cache of data to the Internet early in the day, including emails stolen from officers, tips which appeared to come from members of the public, credit card numbers and other information. Anonymous said it had stolen 10 gigabytes worth of data in retaliation for arrests of its sympathisers in the U.S. and Britain. Breached: This is a building housing Brooks-Jeffrey Marketing, the company which operated the websites for many of the police departments hacked Mayfield's comments were the first indication that the hack might be serious. The emails were mainly from sheriffs' offices in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Mississippi. In Arkansas, St. DHS calls Anonymous hackers untalented ‘script kiddies,’ warns of future attacks. By Stephen C.
WebsterThursday, August 4, 2011 9:22 EDT A Department of Homeland Security threat assessment released publicly this week labels hackers with the online protest group “Anonymous” as possessing only “rudimentary” hacking skills, calling them “script kiddies” who use exploits created by others to break into secured systems. However, the department warns that a more talented faction of Anonymous hackers, who split off recently to form “LulzSec,” exhibit more “creativity” in their attacks and could become a more serious threat if a “higher-level actor” provided them with “more advanced capabilities.” While noting that Anonymous or LulzSec have not reached a level of sophistication that could threaten “critical infrastructure,” the department goes on to add that their releases of “sensitive” information “have the potential to result in serious harm, particularly to Law Enforcement and other Federal, State and Local Government personnel who may be targeted as a result.”
What is Anonymous? What is "The Plan"? OPesr; Anonymous files Lawsuite against the FED Hackers to FBI: 'We are not scared anymore' Hacker groups Anonymous and LulzSec, which had 16 of their alleged members arrested this week in the U.S. by the FBI, don't usually respond to statements written or made about them.
But when the FBI's deputy assistant director gave an interview to NPR saying those arrests send "a message that chaos on the Internet is unacceptable," the hacking collective erupted, with a statement of its own: We are not scared any more. Your threats to arrest us are meaningless to us as you cannot arrest an idea. Any attempt to do so will make your citizens more angry until they will roar in one gigantic choir. It is our mission to help these people and there is nothing — absolutely nothing — you can possibly to do make us stop. In the NPR interview that aired Wednesday, Steven Chabinsky, of the FBI said that even if "hackers can be believed to have social causes, it's entirely unacceptable to break into websites and commit unlawful acts.
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