A hacker has published the personal detail of 20,000 Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and 9,000 Department of Homeland Security policeman online .
The first wave of Department of Homeland Security information waspublished on Sunday , while the the FBI dataappeared onlinejust last dark . In both slip the datum is issue to Cryptobin with the password “ lol . ” The files include names , job title of respect , telephone set numbers , state locations , and email address for the government employees .
Many of the e-mail addresses are not public , harmonize to Motherboard , while job titles let in “ task strength surrogate director ” and “ especial agent . ” Meanwhile , the Guardian claimsthat some of the records appear to be out of date .
The information dumps were announced on the Twitter account@DotGovs , accompanied by the hashtags # FreePalestine and # ProPalestine . The Twitter bio include the line “ have a go at it your government . ”
mouth to Motherboard , a Department of Justice spokesperson explained that the organization is :
… looking into the wildcat access of a system operated by one of its components containing employee contact entropy … This wildcat access is still under investigating ; however , there is no indication at this clip that there is any severance of sensitive personally identifiable information .
The hacker claims to have tricked an employee into providing a keepsake that could be used to get at a DOJ online portal , which in turn provided access to three computers and the stave databases .
Its unclear who was behind the hack . Last twelvemonth a grouping go by the name of “ Crackas With Attitude ” ( CWA ) adopt the contents ofCIA Director John Brennan ’s personal emailsthen lateracquired“34,000 lines of email , name , position and earpiece numbers of gov associates , include military machine . ”
The cyberpunk behind the novel dumpclaimed to Motherboardthat he was n’t link with CWA and that the datum was receive from a different germ .
[ Cryptobin(1)andCryptobin(2)viaMotherboard ]
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