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Anonymous Slovenia Claims To Have Hacked the FBI and Posted Emails To Pastebin

Posted by samzenpus on from the have-some-info dept.

concertina226 writes "The information, posted by user Black-Shadow of the Slovenian branch of the hacktivist group, purportedly contains FBI domain email addresses and passwords for 68 agents, although the user claims in his post that the collected log-in details are 'not all ours'. The post also includes a short profile on FBI director James Brien Comey Jr, including sensitive information such as his date of birth, his wife's name, the date they got married, his educational history and even the geographical coordinates of his residence."

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  1. Sensitive information? by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... sensitive information such as his date of birth, his wife's name, the date they got married, his educational history and even the geographical coordinates of his residence.

    None of that is "sensitive" information. You can get all of that from public records, or from someone's Linkedin home page.

    1. Re:Sensitive information? by jfengel · · Score: 3, Insightful

      They don't put it on their Facebook accounts, but it's not treated like a matter of national security. They buy and sell their houses, and drive to work in their cars, same as everybody else. They don't expect it to be secret, and it would be practically impossible to keep it secret.

      Most of them don't even have personal security guards. I imagine that most of them have home alarms, but it's likely not all that different from many other people who live in the upper-middle-class neighborhoods of DC.

    2. Re:Sensitive information? by tibit · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I'm sorry, but those are still public records in the U.S. There are multiple sources for them:

      1. Local newspaper archives. Typically local newspapers publish all recorded births and deaths.

      2. Local public record offices. All across U.S., both birth and death certificates are public records and everyone can access them.

      3. Local real estate records. Almost everywhere you can look up basic property records for free - the name of the owner, the address, the taxes due. To get details you may need to pay, but that's just administrative fee. In better counties, all of the records are freely available online, including GIS data.

      I am in fact in favor of those remaining public no matter what. It prevents certain forms of corruption.

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    3. Re:Sensitive information? by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 3, Interesting

      No, USPS isn't really in the business of looking people up, lol.

      I have personally gone to the post office, given them a name, and got the address. There was a small fee, and I had to show an ID and sign a form. It was over ten years ago, so maybe they don't do it anymore, or maybe you are simply wrong.

    4. Re:Sensitive information? by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 4, Informative

      Yeah, online property records are a big privacy leak. You can do things to obfuscate it -- put the property in a land trust if your state permits it (do it when you buy it, as historical information is also available) or buy it in the name of a new mexico llc (which have minimal reporting requirements, so you don't have to disclose your ownership of the llc - you can use a NM llc in any state).

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    5. Re:Sensitive information? by ArbitraryName · · Score: 4, Informative

      You are not FBI director James Brien Comey Jr, who (just a guess) probably isn't in the phone book.

      I wouldn't be so sure about that.

    6. Re:Sensitive information? by Whorhay · · Score: 3, Informative

      I've never seen someone with a clearance that wasn't allowed to have a social network account because of the job. I have however known a lot of people that don't have such accounts because it is just one more thing to worry about when a clearance review rolls around. Technically speaking though I think that even accounts like the ones we are using here are supposed to be disclosed as "Alliases" in your clearance paperwork.

    7. Re:Sensitive information? by mythosaz · · Score: 4, Insightful

      As a man of Hispanic genetic heritage, I refuse to even travel through Arizona.

      Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, and certainly I propose voting on things with your feet and wallets, but the overall idea that Arizona is racist is a bit much.

      Immigration issues, and border-related crime (and fallout from it) is a serious problem in Arizona. There's no simple solution. Everyone knows -- everyone -- that the people standing outside of the Home Depot on 35th avenue looking for day job are almost entirely illegals. Everyone knows plenty of restaurants where the kitchen staff are undocumented. Nobody even blinks when we report another house filled with immigrants held hostage by an extortionist coyote who promised to bring them to the promised land but kept them by force until their "ransom" was paid. We're used to seeing a house in the suburbs get busted for being a drug warehouse -- in a state where marijuana is already legal for medical use.

      Largely things are great in Phoenix -- and the rest of the state -- but having a difficult problem with our proximity to the border doesn't make us a state full of racists.

    8. Re:Sensitive information? by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 4, Informative

      Not only that, but a REALLY old client (Haines & Co in North Canton, OH) publishes what the call Criss Cross directory. It has moved to more of an online service, but they still publish and sell a printed book. You can look up an address by phone number, You can look up a person by address, etc. You just need one piece of information and you can easily look up the rest

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    9. Re:Sensitive information? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      While you were making shit up, you forgot to have them bypass the plasma flow regulator and boost the shields by 400%.

    10. Re:Sensitive information? by swb · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Sure, Secret Service protection is limited by law, but the head of the FBI has his own armed force and a ton of discretion on how to use it.

      The FBI has a laundry list of people with grievances, from wingnut militia groups, criminal gangs like the Aryan Brotherhood, a ton of terrorist groups as well as a lengthy list of foreign intelligence services keen to target the principal domestic counterintelligence organization of the US.

      I'm sure he has personal discretion on how much protection to accept and it may fluctuate with threat levels, but the idea that this guy sits in some ordinary surburban house with no one watching and just his trusty FBI issued pistol just isn't realistic.

    11. Re:Sensitive information? by mythosaz · · Score: 4, Insightful

      "Affected by current laws" makes it sound like they had the unfortunate accident of being dropped in this country by mistake rather than choosing, willfully, to be in violation of the law.

      I sympathize with their plight. The other side of the US/Mexico border sucks. If the roles were reversed, I might be here illegally trying to make life better for my family. ...but not choosing a soft, friendly, PC name for people who, by definition, are criminals doesn't make me racist.