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Anonymous Steals 10,000 Iranian Government Emails

Posted by Soulskill on from the must-be-bored-of-sony dept.

Several readers have sent word that Anonymous has hacked servers belonging to Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, making off with over 10,000 emails. "The Ministry’s website is still down as of this writing, and the servers are under Anonymous control. ... The email archive includes approvals and rejections for a variety of visas and passports, among other requests and correspondence. 'It’s near the election’s anniversary. We had to do something,' said one of the Iranian members of Anonymous from #OpIran. He said they take down Iranian government servers on a regular basis for operation days, but that obviously retrieving information required a different approach to the group’s signature DDoS attack. He also indicated an as-yet unannounced attack. 'For the election’s anniversary, we have a complete DDoS attack day' planned, he said.

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  1. Ironically Enough by drpimp · · Score: 4, Informative

    When I hit the /. story I got the following message below and I was curious if there were links to the email and Iran hacker #1 equal to 1000 hacker was retaliating

    Error 503 Service Unavailable Service Unavailable
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    Varnish cache server

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  2. Torrent. by FooAtWFU · · Score: 5, Informative
    Here.

    Besides the obvious political angles, releases like these are probably a boon to academics doing work with text mining and the like. Public releases of email data sets have been hard to come by, something about "privacy". Of course, they're probably unlikely to all be in English, so your mileage may vary...

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  3. Re:encrypted archive by chill · · Score: 2, Informative

    Epic fail.

    Quote the site:

    The security of our proprietary process...

    Tour data is fully sheltered by our unique encryption process.

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  4. Re:So this is a horrible, evil thing, by mobby_6kl · · Score: 1, Informative

    Maybe. If our State Dept. got hacked, people would freak out even if it was just a bunch of "where are we going for lunch" messages.

    It would also be considered an act of war by the US, and some assholes will certainly call for retaliation with cruise missiles.