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German police hacked, suspect tracking data stolen
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 13:47:52 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/263119,german-police-hacked-suspect-tracking-data-stolen.aspx German police hacked, suspect tracking data stolen By Darren Pauli on Jul 9, 2011 2:57 AM Filed under Hackers Usernames, passwords, and coordinates stolen in data haul. Hackers have broken into the German Federal Police and swiped location data used to track suspects. The attack launched by the left-wing n0-N4m3 Cr3w hacking group compromised a server used by the country's Customs service. It then published the contents including location coordinates, license plate and telephone numbers, police usernames and passwords, and a GPS application. The group said in a translated statement that the attack was in response to what it called censorship by the German Government including communications interception and use of biometrics. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Learn encryption strategies that manage risk and shore up compliance. Download Article 1 of CREDANT Technologies' The Essentials Series: Endpoint Data Encryption That Actually Works http://credant.com/campaigns/realtime2/gap-LP1/
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