TechCrunch reported that a hacker group hacked into several FBI-related websites and uploaded their contents to the Internet, including dozens of files containing the personal details of thousands of federal agents and law enforcement officials. The hackers hacked three websites associated with the Association of FBI National Academies, an alliance of various departments across the US that promotes training and guidance for agents and police officers at the FBI academy at Quantico. The hackers exploited vulnerabilities in at least three departmental websites of the organization and downloaded the contents of each web server. They then made the data freely available on their website.
We're talking about 4000 unique records without duplicates, including member names, personal and government email addresses, job titles, phone numbers, and even postal addresses. TechCrunch spoke to one of the anonymous hackers involved via encrypted chat late Friday night.
βWe have hacked over 1000 sites,β he said. - Now we are structuring all the data, and soon they will be sold. I think something else will be published from the list of hacked government sites. Journalists asked if the hacker was worried that the files being released could put federal agents and law enforcement at risk. βProbably so,β he said, adding that his group has information on more than a million employees in several US federal agencies and government organizations.
It is not uncommon for data to be stolen and sold on hacker forums and marketplaces on the dark web, but in this case the information was released for free: hackers want to show they have something "interesting". It is reported that long-known vulnerabilities were exploited, so that government sites simply had outdated protection. In the encrypted chat, the hacker also provided evidence of a number of other hacked websites, including a subdomain owned by manufacturing giant Foxconn.
Source: 3dnews.ru