Australian Federal Police Mock Hackers – Then Get Hacked
Australian Federal Police Mock Hackers – Then Get Hacked
Posted 08/23/2009 at 5:06pm
| 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?
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I Jedi
August 24, 2009 at 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!
Ace of Spades
August 24, 2009 at 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!
UltraTron
August 24, 2009 at 6:14am
I, for one, welcome our new insect...oops, I mean..hacker overlords.
Yusonice
August 24, 2009 at 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)
gendoikari1
August 24, 2009 at 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.
gendoikari1
August 24, 2009 at 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.
nekollx
August 24, 2009 at 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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1337Goose
August 23, 2009 at 8:52pm
Now we just need Ashton Kutcher yelling "Punked!"
... Actually... scratch that... we don't want that...
~Goose
gendoikari1
August 23, 2009 at 6:32pm
Dammit, the effects of too much Vegemite in the system have taken their toll again!
savage4naves
August 23, 2009 at 6:26pm
I laughed when I read this. Score 1 for hackers.
"A day without laughter is a day wasted" Charlie Chaplin
Havok
August 23, 2009 at 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
nekollx
August 24, 2009 at 8:40am
+1
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Invader_Zim
August 23, 2009 at 5:26pm
Hmm, don't buy it for a second. Bunch of misfits I tells ya.
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