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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. Find the source code on GitHub by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Someone started uploading all the HackingTeam source code to GitHub: https://github.com/hackedteam?...
    There are also some signing keys for kernel drivers in here.

    That's a bad day for Hacking Team and a good day for everyone else.

    1. Re:Find the source code on GitHub by dunkelfalke · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Comments aren't there for following the code - even a code monkey like me can do that. They are to explain the reasoning behind the code.

      --
      "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
  2. Monty Python. by Ukab+the+Great · · Score: 5, Funny

    We apologize for corporate and govt data breeches. Those responsible have been
    hacked.

    ---

    We apologise again for the data breeches. Those responsible for hacking
    the people who have just been hacked,
    have been hacked.

  3. 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.