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Anonymous Steals 10,000 Iranian Government Emails
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.
post? WO0t. :)
I'm happy that Panther Modern basically exists now.
Let me see, so that would be CIA, NSA and Airforce cyber-command behind an astroturfed smokescreen of scriptkiddies...
LOLZ
Good work! Just be careful...do not get yourselves caught!
Unfortunately, what they had managed to acquire was just the last year's worth of lunch menus of all Iranian embassies.
I am officially gone from
Just like the Chinese hack on Google? Oh wait, because it's against Iran, according to Slashdot it's a great stroke for freedom and democracy. Slashdot's Western hypocrisy will quickly show itself once again, and before you say, "but it wasn't America or Israel behind it!!!!!" what proof do you have that the Chinese government was behind the Google hack?
... did they pick up a Stuxnet infection in the process?
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
Guru Meditation: XID: 798461344
Varnish cache server
-- Brought to you by Carl's JR
These places need to encrypt their archives remotely.
A new open source project, Cyphertite, does just that. They have a beta test.. and so far it works great for me.
that mainland China would want to do this anonymously.
U.S.: Anonymous is completely rogue! They attack everyone utterly at random!
Anonymous: Not everyone, just the bad guys.
U.S.: What are you talking about? You've been attacking us, too.
Anonymous: *cocks eyebrow*
Technoli
I'm not sure about the consequences. We've seen/heard of FBI raids against DDOS participants when the target is Western financial services, but does law enforcement care at all when Anons mess with Iranian or other rogue states' sites? I'd imagine that the legality is the same in either instance, so it's really the response that I'm concerned with.
Take off every 'sig' for great justice.
Having would be kings squabbling to be in charge of your life -> western
Having an uncontested king undoubtedly in charge of your life -> eastern
And what does the postmaster say about the amount of emails stolen?
"It's over NINE THOUSAAAAAAND!"
"WHAT?! NINE THOUSAND?"
If what I just said sounded like a troll, it was probably just a failed attempt at humor.
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...
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
I think that a variant of the trollface, with a turban, "the Ayahtrollah", would be a suitable mascot for such activities.
Spats between hackers and international corporations is one thing. When you attack a foreign government, that starts to get awfully close to war which is a matter for governments and not their citizens.
It is also easy to imagine military and intelligence agencies behind these sorts of attacks and hiding behind their citizenry as an excuse.
This sort of thing is going to continue to escalate and I predict that lives will eventually be lost..
Evolution: love it or leave it
I wonder if they'll offer a welcome back package when they come back up.
Shouldn't the title of the article say something like "Anonymous steals over 9,000 Iranian emails"?
we were basically paying whats-his-name, head of HB Gary, to go around running script kiddie stuff and fantasize about quitting his job and building an MMO.
you can read about it in the anonymous dumps.
Finally those faggots attack people that deserve it.
How many beheadings, mass killings, and homicide bombings did it take before you queers decided to kick an islamic republic in the nuts?
You'd think Charlie Sheen has taken over as much Win anon has been producing lately. Now if they'll just go after Nigeria next :P
I hate to say it, but anon has really started becoming a patriot group and one at least in part I can support.
Hopefully they stay like this and leave the camwhores like Jessi Slaughter alone or for Ebaum to deal with.
To rip off a famous poem:
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Do you notice that many of you are comparing DDOSing servers and getting (copies of) password files to killing people or putting them into concentration camps?
The next act of terrorism is what: sitting in front of a store and blocking the entrance?
By all means: argue in terms of civil law. Talk about the (financial, reputational) harm those DDOSers do.
But don't fucking compare that to violence against people.
It's not. Get a grip.
(Hint: civil disobedience traditionally entails breaking some laws -- but refrains from harming humans directly)
of some visa applicant's passports. What are they going to do with them? Sell them to Mossad?
In the torrent is 10,356 email files. If you filter out all file names that contain the words warning, failure, visa, request, failed, or reservation, you're left with 58 files, some of which appear to be spam. So, not a great treasure trove.
The commands I used are
ls | grep -vEi "warning|failure|visa|request|failed|reservation" | wc
ls | wc -l