Anonymous Takes On Supplier of Military, Police Equipment
Anonymous Takes On Supplier of Military, Police Equipment
Posted 12/29/2011 at 3:04pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Anonymous seems to be moving up in the world. After attacking a global security research firm earlier this week, elements of Anonymous have now announced that a hack from a few months ago the compromised SpecialForces.com, a seller of equipment to the military and law enforcement. As per the usual pattern, the stolen data is now available online.
As confirmed by Special Forces Gear, the owner of SpecialForces.com, Anonymous managed to grab 14,000 usernames/passwords, and possibly 8,000 encrypted credit card numbers. The attack happened in August, but Anonymous is only drawing attention to it now. Special Forces Gear claims that the database compromised by Anon is a backup from a year-old version of the website. The new site does not store data in the same way, they say.
Following the breach, Special Forces Gear made all users change passwords, and the credit card numbers are apparently mostly expired by this point. Still, there is sure to be some useful data that the owners certainly never expected to get out. Special Forces Gear has hired third-party consultants to make sure these shenanigans don’t happen again, but there are plenty of other vulnerable sites for Anonymous to take on.
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warptek2010
January 01, 2012 at 12:19am
These guys could be generating mass support if they went about their hacking activities in more of a 'man against oppression' kind of way, you know - fighting for the little guy but instead they choose to hack user names, passwords and credit card information. Well nobody likes thievery... so instead they look like miscreants. Good luck staying one step ahead of the law.
saffy
December 30, 2011 at 1:23pm
If they really wanted change, Anon should just attack the politicians in favor of SOPA and make their families suffer.
torusya
December 30, 2011 at 8:02am
it's because of idiots like this we will get things like SOPA and other stupid crap!
firefox91
December 30, 2011 at 7:21am
If these guys really wanted to be champions for the people like they claim, they would be smarter about who they attack. Attacking a supplier of gear to the US military is not one of them. These guys are clearly intelligent but they lack common sense. Why don't they go hack some Chinese systems? No one (except the Chinese) would complain about that.
bpstone
December 29, 2011 at 10:00pm
They're zeroing in. That cute proxy server won't do shit for you. ;P lol
ApathyCurve
December 30, 2011 at 7:21am
I just smile to myself every time I see these moralistic simpletons do something else stupid. They'll eventually stick their necks out a millimeter too far, and then their heads will be rolling in the gutter. It's not a video game.
blkpanthr
December 29, 2011 at 5:40pm
These jokers are gonna end up in a hurt locker...
As a Vet, i can assure you the US military has zero sense of humor when it comes to security breaches...
Joji
December 29, 2011 at 7:40pm
True, I just don't understand why they needed to release all that data for. One of the reasons I think they did this is for the hate of wars US ignited or participated in. They believe that war is an illusion, mainly comprimised of false wars and what not. That's the only reason I can think of. Or perhaps they did it for the fun of it to piss them off? I really dunno.
warptek2010
January 01, 2012 at 12:20am
People in groups like this tend to believe in all kinds of whacky conspiracy theories. Problem is, they are intelligent but for all that intelligence they're also have just enough paranoia to believe in pseudo-scientific claims about 9/11, Global cabal's, UFO's etc...
Or perhaps like I said above... they're just thieves.
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