Tuesday, September 27, 2011











Anonymous sensitive police data released

 

Latest coup by the Austrian hacker group Anonymous Austria: Thousands of records released by Austrian police via Twitter.



The Austrian hacker collective Anonymous left in the night from Sunday to Monday via Twitter stir with a mystery, who seems highly explosive. It was linked on a list of nearly 25,000 records, the first one could not unambiguously assigned. It soon turned out, however, that it is indeed in the tweet to the private data of Austrian police officers concerned that the hackers were able to publish quite simple: including name, complete address and date of birth of the affected persons. Once again, the hacker collective that makes a drastic kind attention to shortcomings in the safety precautions.

Police data was the hacker collective "made available"

The massive criticism of the access to these private data encountered Anonymous with the remark that no one did so to hide something and most of the published data also find in the phone book. Nevertheless, they admitted on Twitter that they were the data "made available". As the Interior Ministry announced via the APA now, come from the sensitive data to a nearby police association. The Interior Ministry itself is not betroffen.Die inquiries about where the vulnerability lies, currently running at full speed.
Anonymous , already in July with a hack of the data from the data of the Austrian Information Service fees GIS had caused a stir in August against Facebook has had advanced to another coup succeeded, which is guaranteed to provide plenty of excitement.






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