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GhostShell Hackers Release Data From Exploiting NASA, FBI, ESA

Posted by Unknown on from the infernal-script-kiddies dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:What's their motive? by somersault · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Some men just want to watch the world burn.

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    which is totally what she said
  2. The NSA? Hehehe, okay. by girlintraining · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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    #fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
    1. Re:The NSA? Hehehe, okay. by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

      I'm happy someone is doing it. The day no one is willing to tweek the nose of power is the day the human race stops being human.

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      When information is power, privacy is freedom.
    2. Re:The NSA? Hehehe, okay. by Threni · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Who mentioned the NSA? Apart from you, I mean?

  3. Re:Is it working now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  4. Re:What's their motive? by TapeCutter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "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.

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    And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.