Australian Federal Police Mock Hackers – Then Get Hacked
Posted 08/23/09 at 08:06:44 PM by Justin Kerr
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Making a high profile hacker arrest is respectable accomplishment, but bragging about it to his friends on the community forums is clearly a bad idea. I’m sure you didn’t need to be told this, but apparently it’s a lesson the Australian Police Department had to learn the hard way. In a recently televised take down broadcast on ABC’s Four Corners, Australian investigators raided, and sized computer equipment belonging to the administrator of an underground hacking forum located at r00t.y0u.org. Following the arrest, interrogators were able to obtain passwords, and began using the site as a honey pot to try and expose other potential suspects.
Unfortunately for Police word of the arrest leaked out quickly, and it didn’t take long for the community to discover something was up. Matters were further complicated when the police agency began taunting the forums visitors by saying “all member IP addresses have been logged, and arrests are being made”. Enraged by the comments, members of the hacker community broke into the system police were using during the investigation and supposedly gained access to intelligence contained within the federal police mainframe.
The hacker posted his own retort to the Australian police on pastebin.com mocking them for busting a couple of “script kiddies” and posted pictures of fake IDs and stolen credit card numbers lifted from police servers. The hacker continued by claiming “I couldn’t stop laughing on seeing that the federal police server was running Windows”. Apparently the MYSQL password was also left blank (opps!). Apparently this 30 minute long hack could have been faster if he “didn’t stop to laugh so much”.
Police claim the files were intentionally planted on the compromised system. Anyone buy that?
Fuck yeah... Go hackers...
Submitted by I Jedi on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 1:38pm
Fuck yeah... Go hackers... Defintiely awesome what they did and the Police were stupid enough to parade around saying what they said and for using a unsecured server. Very nice job, guys!
Submitted by I Jedi on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 1:39pm
**EXTRA COMMENT: IGNORE**
Dumbass Cops
Submitted by Ace of Spades on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 1:12pm
Thats what you get for talking shit you can't back up, fucking pigs. Don't fuck with hackers, period. Let them do what they do best.
And oh that PC forensics stuff is nothing but BS.
LINUX FTW!
Submitted by UltraTron on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 6:14am
I, for one, welcome our new insect...oops, I mean..hacker overlords.
stupid aussie
Submitted by Yusonice on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 3:42am
Stupid Aussie police, ever heard of going undercover to catch criminals? why post about something that has not yet been done? (the arresting all part)
"Right, so this is the new
Submitted by gendoikari1 on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 10:46am
"Right, so this is the new guy to our forum."
"Hi everyone. When do we start doing illegal stuff?"
'Know thine enemy' works wonder, provided you actually know what you're doing.
Submitted by gendoikari1 on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 10:46am
"Right, so this is the new guy to our forum."
"Hi everyone. When do we start doing illegal stuff?"
'Know thine enemy' works wonder, provided you actually know what you're doing.
if they were smart they
Submitted by nekollx on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 11:24am
if they were smart they would have used the forum to get a better understanding of security from the inside.Find out who wasa White Hat and who was a Black Hat and then use their new hacker powers to track down all the Black Hats...
IF they were smart.
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LOL. served!
Submitted by 1337Goose on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 8:52pm
Now we just need Ashton Kutcher yelling "Punked!"
... Actually... scratch that... we don't want that...
~Goose
Submitted by gendoikari1 on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 6:32pm
Dammit, the effects of too much Vegemite in the system have taken their toll again!
Submitted by savage4naves on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 6:26pm
I laughed when I read this. Score 1 for hackers.
"A day without laughter is a day wasted" Charlie Chaplin
Wave good-bye to yer heads, wankers!
Submitted by Havok on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 6:20pm
While I'm on the side of justice on this one, justice WAS served to both sides! It's like Scarface yelling "Say hello to my lil' friend!"
but then some dude yelling back:
"Yeah well, say hello to your ammo I just swiped!"
OMGWTFBBQ
Kangaroo and an Ostriche?!
Submitted by Stry8993 on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 5:41pm
Does more really need to be said?
Submitted by nekollx on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 8:40am
+1
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Hmmm....
Submitted by Invader_Zim on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 5:26pm
Hmm, don't buy it for a second. Bunch of misfits I tells ya.
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