Anonymous releases 90,000 military emails and passwords

***Anarch*** · Jul 11th, 2011 7:25 PM

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/1...nce-community/

A Twitter account purported to be run by a hacker who helped found the infamous LulzSec group claimed Monday that "Anonymous" would release "literally explosive" information this week, ostensibly taken from intelligence contractors.

While it was impossible to verify if the account was legitimate, it had been previously referenced on official Anonymous channels and bore the tag of "Sabu," who is believed to be one of the group's leaders and among the founders of LulzSec.

In another release, Sabu warned the intelligence community that "your contractors have failed you," adding, "Tomorrow is the beginning."

The account vowed that this week's releases would be the biggest info-dumps for Anonymous in the last four years.

Reporters James Ball and Charles Arthur, with The Guardian, suggested that the hacker collective may be looking to expose information held by British intelligence contractors as it relates to an extradition appeal filed by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

They also suggested the release could alternatively be related to the phone hacking scandals surrounding News International, the British arm of Rupert Murdoch's global media conglomerate News Corp.

In another possible outcome, the warning could be purely disinformation intended to stir up confusion and media fanfare.

Much like nearly ever story about Anonymous, the truth about these shadowy figures and their forthcoming operations remains hidden under layers of encryption, leaving even the media to wait and see what the hackers will produce, if anything.

Update: Anonymous releases 90,000 military emails and passwords

Hackers claiming to be part of Anonymous said this afternoon that they had released some 90,000 military email addresses and passwords stolen from the servers of defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.

"We infiltrated a server on their network that basically had no security measures in place," they wrote. "We were able to run our own application, which turned out to be a shell and began plundering some booty. Most shiny is probably a list of roughly 90,000 military emails and password hashes (md5, non-salted of course!). We also added the complete sqldump, compressed ~50mb, for a good measure."

The files, under the title "Military Meltdown Monday," were released on bittorrent sharing website The Pirate Bay and became quickly available across the web.

Anonymous said Booz Allen was targeted for their involvement in numerous electronic surveillance programs, and quipping that it took just four hours to accomplish the hack.

The group added that they "found maps and keys for various other treasure chests buried on the islands of government agencies, federal contractors and shady whitehat companies.

"This material surely will keep our blackhat friends busy for a while."

A Booz Allen representative did not respond to a request for comment.

***Anarch*** · Jul 11th, 2011 7:27 PM

Did anon really do it or did the pentacon just throw a wag the dog? Yall proly know my opinion still WTF?!?! AMIRITE? 90 thousand... who and what. Clerks? Launch codes? of what priority were these passwords and emails?

***Blu-ray*** · Jul 11th, 2011 7:46 PM

Just the email addresses? No emails?

***James Random*** · Jul 11th, 2011 8:37 PM

All of this is pretty sort of, I can't quite put my finger on it...tame.

If Anonymous really wanted to have the US government by the balls, why
wouldn't they try to find/expose the 9/11 documents that were so quickly
whisked away by the FBI/CIA/Military? Something really damaging to the
credibility of the Intelligence Community.

***Kiehlroy*** · Jul 12th, 2011 3:28 AM

Originally Posted by James Random

If Anonymous really wanted to have the US government by the balls, why
wouldn't they try to find/expose the 9/11 documents that were so quickly
whisked away by the FBI/CIA/Military? Something really damaging to the
credibility of the Intelligence Community.

If they did that the gov would just shut down the internets and then these people would have to actually,

go outside...

Oh FUCKING Noooes!!!

***Bob*** · Jul 12th, 2011 10:23 AM

The intelligence community? You mean the guys who screwed up the Iraq war? Those guys? They still have credibility? That's like a broke man who has lost his last nickel.

***Anarch*** · Jul 12th, 2011 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by Bob

The intelligence community? You mean the guys who screwed up the Iraq war? Those guys? They still have credibility? That's like a broke man who has lost his last nickel.

Epic Metaphor!

Personally I remain of my opinion that this is a cyber false flag and not an op organized by anonymous.

James Random is correct in that this is a pretty tame hack and leak.

But no doubt the lamestream media will pump it into something much bigger then what it really is over the course of this week.

**lycanox** · Jul 13th, 2011 7:08 AM

You would expect them to release the warplans for Iran then.

Its just a group of Internet hackers. Its not like they can go in Mission impossible style.
And accidental flaws in the pentagon mainframe do not have huge click here signs on them. You know.

***Reef Badlaw*** · Jul 13th, 2011 9:06 AM

So astonishing I can hardly keep my eyes open..... Mom, are we there yet...?

***Nu Kua*** · Jul 13th, 2011 9:30 AM

Originally Posted by Kiehlroy

If they did that the gov would just shut down the internets

That is what bugs me about some of these "sensationalist" hacks- they often do it for the WE'RE ON THE NEWS! "wow" factor, but what good is it? If they were really after useful info to discover and reveal, they'd not be whoring out their mad hack skilz... but they are being selfish, they only want to look like bad asses and make a splash on the news screen.

And their behavior will only add fuel to the already smoldering fire of net censorship- which negatively affects us all as per, free flow of information and damnit, just the right to go about your net travels in relative peace and at least a modicum of privacy.

And you know me... I almost wonder if they aren't somehow working for the "Holy shit, our networks are unsafe, so we have to choke everybody in order to be safe, so let's enact some draconian laws for your protection!" crowd.

Attention whores. I am sorry, I am not impressed by loud actions with no inherent meaning other than self aggrandizement. Hacking just so you can flaunt it... why not be smart and put those skills to actual good use- and be responsible.

***Ningishiddza*** · Jul 13th, 2011 9:44 AM

Originally Posted by James Random

If Anonymous really wanted to have the US government by the balls, why wouldn't they try to find/expose the 9/11 documents that were so quickly whisked away by the FBI/CIA/Military?

And what leads you to believe they spent time scanning those documents into digital images?

And why would you believe that 10 years after the fact smoking-gun evidence is still sitting in someone's inbox?

Originally Posted by lycanox

You would expect them to release the warplans for Iran then.

I already did.

Libya might be practice for a modified version of the plans.

***Anarch*** · Jul 13th, 2011 11:20 AM

I don't think Iran would be a push over nation.. like the others we have invaded. They do have a huge army, Air craft carriers, nuclear submarines , and have even join the world in the space race. No .... their is a reason we haven't invaded them yet and that is likely the same reason why we wont invade them.....

They aint push overs incapable of offering little to no resistance.