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Hacking Team Hacked, Attackers Grab 400GB of Internal Data

Posted by Soulskill on from the bet-they-have-a-case-of-the-mondays dept.

Several readers sent word that notorious surveillance company Hacking Team has itself been hacked. Attackers made off with 400GB worth of emails, documents, and source code. The company is known for providing interception tools to government and law enforcement agencies. According to the leaked files, Hacking Team has customers in Egypt, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Lebanon, Mongolia, Russia, Germany, Sudan, and the United States — to name a few. It has been labeled an enemy of the internet by Reporters Without Borders. "Clients have had their passwords exposed as well, as several documents related to contracts and configurations have been circulating online." Nobody knows yet who perpetrated the hack.

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  1. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid by D.McG. · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How does a group like that not notice 400GB of traffic exiting the building? If it were done in a single day, the hackers would need to draw down 4,629,629 bytes per second sustained for 24 hours.

  2. GeoTrust signing keys by fulldecent · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can someone please explain the significance and consequences of publishing this:

    GeoTrust_SigningCertificateExported_2011.pfx

    https://github.com/hackedteam/...

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    1. Re:GeoTrust signing keys by mwvdlee · · Score: 3, Interesting

      From the looks of it, this key seems to be used for signing Windows binaries, not for SSL certificates.
      Surely somebody more knowledgeable can confirm or deny this?

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