Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data • Hacker News Board

Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data

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Post by jessaustin » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 3:24 AM UTC

themartorana wrote: post #4

nickpsecurity wrote: post #2

Poetic justice. Serves the bastards right. I'm sure hackers are flocking to the download in search of awesome tools. If they're there, then we might see independent, malware authors building some interesting things to produce headaches with. Interesting times continue. Note that many of us in INFOSEC said years ago that these offensive, cyber companies developing weapons was a risk to us if they double-dealed or got…

Looks like they're double dealing, too. Invoices to Egypt and other oppressive governments have already been found in the torrent dump. Christopher Soghoian on Twitter: "Just from Torrent File listing, Hacking Team's customers includes South Korea, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Lebanon, and Mongolia." https://mobile.twitter.com/csoghoian/status/6178628794050641... Edit - just read Christopher Soghoian's entire Twit…

OMG "I'm going to save @HackingTeam the trouble of hiring Mandiant." then the pic of Bejtlich with "DEAR @HACKINGTEAM IT WAS CHINA". Ha!

Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data

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Post by sarciszewski » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 3:28 AM UTC

nickpsecurity wrote: post #10

sarciszewski wrote: post #3

Good. Serves them right. Normally I'm a bit more reserved when a company I dislike gets hacked, but take a look at Hacking Team's history and you'll probably want to celebrate too.

Not just hacked: this is almost on the Sony level. They got... H A C K E D !!!!! Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll face bankruptcy with their stuff available for free now. :)

I'm also hoping for criminal charges ;)

Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data

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Post by nickpsecurity » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 3:36 AM UTC

sarciszewski wrote: post #12

nickpsecurity wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not just hacked: this is almost on the Sony level. They got... H A C K E D !!!!! Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll face bankruptcy with their stuff available for free now. :)

I'm also hoping for criminal charges ;)

If we're lucky. They are in Italy and defense contractors after all with what that entails...

Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data

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Post by Zigurd » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 3:47 AM UTC

bjterry wrote: post #6

> ...Hacking Team's customers include South Korea, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Lebanon, and Mongolia. Yet, the company maintains that it does not do business with oppressive governments. I was curious if those were all oppressive governments, especially since South Korea was included. According to a couple indices on Wikipedia [1] South Korea is pretty free (only the press freedom index is lower than America's),…

South Korea is fairly recently free-ish. Up until 1987 South Korea had a heavily US-influenced authoritarian government with a token legal opposition. The US still has a very strong influence in South Korea. There are also recent incidents that betray a lack of confidence in democracy: http://www.wsj.com/articles/south-korea-court-dissolves-left...

It's a perfectly nice place to visit. People there apparently feel free to talk about everything: The war, the Park era, etc. Unions can be quite militant. But they are not as free as Americans.

Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data

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Post by mikeyouse » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 3:47 AM UTC

They were stonewalling a UN investigation into selling their services to Sudan during the civil war.. Unbelievable..

https://twitter.com/csoghoian/status/617892200618291200

Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data

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Post by the_ancient » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 3:52 AM UTC

Zigurd wrote: post #14

bjterry wrote: post #6

> ...Hacking Team's customers include South Korea, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Lebanon, and Mongolia. Yet, the company maintains that it does not do business with oppressive governments. I was curious if those were all oppressive governments, especially since South Korea was included. According to a couple indices on Wikipedia [1] South Korea is pretty free (only the press freedom index is lower than America's),…

South Korea is fairly recently free-ish. Up until 1987 South Korea had a heavily US-influenced authoritarian government with a token legal opposition. The US still has a very strong influence in South Korea. There are also recent incidents that betray a lack of confidence in democracy: http://www.wsj.com/articles/south-korea-court-dissolves-left... It's a perfectly nice place to visit. People there apparently feel fr…

Yes but 'Merica is freedom... I know because we just had 72 hours of colorful explosions declaring the freedom....

Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data

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Post by wslh » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 3:53 AM UTC

Just looking at the torrent I found Coca Cola, Google, Carrefour, and Movistar. I would love to see an index of this information to quickly search the content.

Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 3:56 AM UTC

Zigurd wrote: post #14

bjterry wrote: post #6

> ...Hacking Team's customers include South Korea, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Lebanon, and Mongolia. Yet, the company maintains that it does not do business with oppressive governments. I was curious if those were all oppressive governments, especially since South Korea was included. According to a couple indices on Wikipedia [1] South Korea is pretty free (only the press freedom index is lower than America's),…

South Korea is fairly recently free-ish. Up until 1987 South Korea had a heavily US-influenced authoritarian government with a token legal opposition. The US still has a very strong influence in South Korea. There are also recent incidents that betray a lack of confidence in democracy: http://www.wsj.com/articles/south-korea-court-dissolves-left... It's a perfectly nice place to visit. People there apparently feel fr…

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Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data

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Post by Zigurd » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 3:57 AM UTC

the_ancient wrote: post #16

Zigurd wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

South Korea is fairly recently free-ish. Up until 1987 South Korea had a heavily US-influenced authoritarian government with a token legal opposition. The US still has a very strong influence in South Korea. There are also recent incidents that betray a lack of confidence in democracy: http://www.wsj.com/articles/south-korea-court-dissolves-left... It's a perfectly nice place to visit. People there apparently feel fr…

Yes but 'Merica is freedom... I know because we just had 72 hours of colorful explosions declaring the freedom....

It's all shades of gray. None of them on a trend toward lighter, it seems.

Re: Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data

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Post by curiousjorge » Mon, Jul 06, 2015, 4:01 AM UTC

David Vincenzetti will forever go down in history as a piece of shit.