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GhostShell Hackers Release Data From Exploiting NASA, FBI, ESA
An anonymous reader writes "The Register is reporting that the hacking collective GhostShell has announced it has [dumped] around 1.6 million account details purloined from government, military, and industry. The [hacking] group said in a statement: 'we have prepared a juicy release of 1.6 million accounts/records from fields such as aerospace, nanotechnology, banking, law, education, government, military, all kinds of wacky companies & corporations working for the department of defense, airlines and more.'"
Which problems were you encountering?
OT: A few minutes ago I was unable to leave the front page. All article links simply loaded the front page. Seems to be working by now.
I'm confused about what their motive is... Is it to endanger American citizens? Reveal military tactics and endanger soldier's lives? Is it to further corrupt a country that is hanging by a thread? I see no purpose to these hacks other than to gloat around anonymously and/or to endanger people.
It's all for the Lulz....
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
which is totally what she said
Yeah, they have the password for the usernames of their website. You know, the one that has only public information. Wow, I'm so impressed. In other news, government and private-sector agencies use passwords to prevent people from randomly updating their public websites, which contain no sensitive or terribly interesting information. It's like saying I hacked the whitehouse because I was able to get into the e-mail account of one of the assistant junior staffer's intern's. woo, look at me! :\
Also, Protip: Don't embarass one of the few agencies in the world with the resources and inclination to track you down (ie, the NSA). They basically built a whole second internet to track all the traffic on the first internet, and then built a giant super data warehouse to warehouse all the other warehouses. Not exactly the kind of people who's cheerios you want to piss in.
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
Which problems were you encountering?
For a period of at least several hours, clicking on any link to a story simply loaded you back on the front page.
Mods, quit wasting your points giving -1's to people complaining about the site not working properly. The OP in this thread did not deserve to be modded as "Flamebait", give it an Offtopic if you're that pissed about it.
"sheeple" - If you think the government is bad now, it would be a lot worse if people who use that term had any real power.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
...section 9 on the case.
My -1 Troll is actually a +1 funny. And my -1 flame is actually a +1 insightfull.
^this^
Look its all good and all that you are 'leet' hacker. Did you scrub the data? Or did you dump it in the raw because that would entailed too much work? What I am asking is did you screw up someones life. Other than some admins who did not know about your exploits or maybe has no power to fix it? Did you notify the agencies involved (least the ones who do not throw a fit)? Or did you just dump the data out?
So you broke into NASA. Nice. They now have to take money that is already low and spend it on infrastructure instead of science. Way to go bonehead.
So you broke into FBI. Yeah, those guys react oh so well to having someone b&e. You have earned yourself a special agent whos job it is to find you and lock you up.
Or maybe you just did it because you are an ass who just wants people to look at them and pay attention to how screechy they are. Hey maybe on the other hand you would be a perfect politician. But good luck with that and "I was arrested for hacking" on your record. The 'sheeple' will see that and ignore you.
According to my 94 year old venerable grandmother we are not free anymore: there are too many laws and rules for anyone to understand what is legal and what is not.
No need go back to ancient history to find out what a civilised society with less regulation would be like, ask your +90 elders. You will learn that poverty and misery would be abundant but the peoples would be freer economically (you could trade beef for chicken with your neighbours without risking a visit from the food police) but the peer pressure fueled by the churches would reduce moral freedoms .
The original question was
I wonder what it would be like to live in a world that simply relies and trusts in the goodness of your neighbors.
I don't think that existed 100 years ago. I don't think that exists anywhere. Not in our society, nor in the animal world. Anything that trusts too much gets wiped out sooner or later.
100 years ago the world may have been more free economically, but issues of race and gender were a lot worse than what we have in most of today's supposedly "civilised" society.
which is totally what she said
I think that's what The Register used to be. I stopped reading it years ago when it became impossible to tell if they were reporting actual news in a comical way, or completely fabricating a particular story.
Miy wits only appear dim because I want them to last, instead of burning out, you insensitive clod!
Is it to further corrupt a country that is hanging by a thread?
I'd have to say this part is probably not correct. Corruption tends to lead to things like lax security and other cases of not doing the job. While this attack probably doesn't have much effect, I'd rather these guys be trying out the security rather than someone with more sinister motives. And maybe that embarrassment will get someone to do their job.
It only seems that way now, now that everybody knows about it.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
This is nothing more then Gov phishing attempt. I spent about 4 hours and went through most of the data, spotted few people I know, they have never had accounts on servers as those dumps claimed, I told them their “passwords” they had no clue what I was talking about, there was no wow how did you know! Reaction. Tried about 5000 user/password attempts none of them worked. Text strings from most of the Nasa/gov/contractors are public, you can google them. This whole crap of data looks like giant text scraping in attempt to generate legitimate looking “hacked” data. This was posted yesterday today noting works: http://pastebin.com/RdC0LZqW And those “super hackers” xl3gi0n have even they own facebook page please who buys this?? Another one post same dump GrenXparta_Hacker Just an example Todays dump http://pastebin.com/RdC0LZqW has following hash: MGHkLGt3ZQExBGZ2ZGt2MwD2ZmZ5LGSvZ2H5A2H0LzR= Quick search for this hash shows it showed up Sep 12 2012 on some Russian page: http://forum.insidepro.com/viewtopic.php?t=17101&sid=962d5d41e1b8225c223283ab91908b66 Some guy asks in Russian security forum what that hash is and someone says that it looks like SHA-256, but it misses / + so it is not. Or search for this: AGL2ZmEuL2HmAJL1AmVmMwVkLJRkAGL5BGtkZ2EyZTL= Every single one of those hashes is searchable on the net, most of them (from today) are from http://www.itpints.com/?sources%5B%5D=Twitter&q=Alexis%20Wright What is this? Real time search engine that generates hashes the same as in “leaked” docs claiming to be passwords? It screams FAKE. There is probably quite a few hashes\hot spots included that government is monitoring and checks who searches for what, also they will phish all the idiots that will share their work related data with “anonymous” install pin point them malware on their PC and monitor them further. At list what I would do :)
This fake info was posted by a government shill. The point of the post is no different than Operation Fast & Furious--find those behind the lines.