Reefa Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 While America was getting ready to watch the Super Bowl on Sunday, a hacker promised he would dump online a list of more than 20,000 agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and 9,000 Department of Homeland Security officers. Right after the big game’s kickoff, the cybercriminal carried out part of his promise, publishing a list of 9,000 DHS employees. On Monday, less than 24 hours later, the hacker, who wishes to remain anonymous, has fulfilled the remaining part of his promise. Quote 20,000 FBI EMPLOYEES NAMES, TITLES, PHONE NUMBERS, EMAILS, COUNTRYpenis February 8, 2016 “Long Live Palestine, Long Live Gaza,“ reads a message at the top of the dump, which also included the hashtag “#FreePalestine.“ The hacker provided Motherboard with a copy of the data on Sunday. The list includes names, email addresses (many of which are non-public) and job descriptions, such as task force deputy director, security specialist, special agent, and many more. The list also includes roughly 1,000 FBI employees in an intelligence analysis role. Motherboard reached out to some random numbers on the list, and most corresponded to the names listed, while a small number went through generic FBI operator desks. The FBI did not respond to a request for comment, deferring to the Department of Justice. A spokesperson for the DOJ told Motherboard on Monday that the department “is looking into the unauthorized access of a system operated by one of its components containing employee contact information.” “This unauthorized access is still under investigation; however, there is no indication at this time that there is any breach of sensitive personally identifiable information,” DOJ spokesperson Peter Carr said in a statement. Carr’s statement seems to confirm what the hacker told Motherboard. The cybercriminal reached out to Motherboard through an apparently compromised DOJ email account earlier last week, and claimed to have obtained the stolen data by compromising that account and then using it to access a DOJ portal. After tricking a department representative into giving him a token code to access the portal, the hacker claimed he used the compromised credentials to log into the portal, where he gained access to an online virtual machine. From here, the cybercriminal was presented with three different computers to access, he said, one of which belonged to the person behind the compromised email account. The databases of DHS and FBI details were on the DOJ intranet, the hacker said. Some of the data from the DHS list appears to be outdated, according to The Guardian. In any case, a DHS spokesperson said the agency is looking into the reports, though “there is no indication at this time that there is any breach of sensitive or personally identifiable information.” Michael Adams, an information security expert who served more than two decades in the US Special Operations Command, criticized the US government for its failure to protect data, especially in the aftermath of the embarrassing and damaging hack on OPM, the government agency that handles employee information. “What has anybody in the United States government learned?” Adams told Motherboard in a phone interview. “They’re not doing information security fundamentals, obviously. It’s just fucking unacceptable.” This latest data dump comes on the heels of a long series of attacks on US government employees. In October, a group of hackers calling itself “Crackas With Attitude” (CWA) broke into the AOL email of CIA director John Brennan. The hacktivists then targeted several other high-profile government employees, including the US spy chief James Clapper, a White House official, and others. Last year the hacktivists were also able to break into a US law enforcement portal, gaining access to a series of information sharing tools. This hack allegedly allowed them to download one or more databases of US government employees. In November, the CWA hackers released two lists of law enforcement agents from several departments, one containing around 2,300 names, and another containing almost 1,500 names. Both lists seemed incomplete, given that they were in alphabetical order and only included names starting with the first letters of the alphabet. The CWA hackers appear to have shared the databases stolen last year with others. In January, another group of cybercriminals released a list of 80 police officers from Miami, Florida. It’s unclear if this new dump was carried out by the same hackers behind these past exploits. The person or people behind the Twitter account that first tweeted the DHS list on Sunday told Motherboard that this data doesn’t come from last year’s portal hack, and said that they were not Cracka, the leader of the hacking group CWA. The account, however, used the hashtag #FreePalestine in several of his tweets. This is the same hashtag Cracka and his associates have used since the beginning to show support to Palestine, which they claimed is the motivation behind their hacks. The data dump on Sunday opened with a quote from the rap song Long Live Palestine: “This is for Palestine, Ramallah, West Bank, Gaza, this is for the child that is searching for an answer.” In one of its first tweets, which has since been deleted, the Twitter account that shared the stolen data also mentioned ”@Fruityhax” as their “leader.” Last year, after the Brennan hack, the Twitter account Fruityhax was linked to a hacker only known as Cubed, who claimed to be one of the leaders of CWA, along with Cracka. “This is not one hack,” Adams said. “This is an ongoing hack against the United States government, whether it’s from one or more actors is unknown.” http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hacker-publishes-personal-info-of-20000-fbi-agents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knowledge-Spammer Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Hacker Publishes Personal Info of 20,000 FBI Agents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straycat19 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Another wanna be hacker posting publicly available information and the data isn't even current or correct because I personally know several on the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 1 hour ago, straycat19 said: Another wanna be hacker posting publicly available information and the data isn't even current or correct because I personally know several on the list. If you know several you must be a cop or a informant . Look out people it's the po-po. I dont make it habit to getting to know law enforcement unless they force me to get to know them The FBI got so many crimes on the streets to solve and they never been great with cyber security no ways . This is why they need SiliconValley to do there dirty work for them. Eg CISA they need to go back to doing what they was hired for to solve real crimes on the street . Even the local police cant stand the Feds so whats up with you cheer leading them all the time ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vibranium Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 2 hours ago, straycat19 said: Another wanna be hacker posting publicly available information and the data isn't even current or correct because I personally know several on the list. I hope you're not saying that this breach is "f*cking acceptable" because it isn't! Moral of the story: the Feds should pry less into the privacy of innocent individuals, and protect their own information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Now they will need to hire the NSA or the CIA to find out who done it most likely someone out of there jurisdiction . The crimes that FBI have tired to prosecute outside the USA have been total disasters that cost the taxpayers millions of dollars . Just like Kim Dotcom /Megaupload case were he had servers on USA soil its been since 2012 and still they never extradited him. All his money on freeze and the tax payers have to pay for all this nonsense . The feds will end up with the taxpayers money and Kim Dotcoms money . They need to stick to sloven crimes on the street. And law enforcement is not going to stop prying in peoples business someone can make up a flat lie and tell them you done something or know someone that did and they will be at you're house in you're business. That's what they paid for to know you're business regardless. Hover the man that started the FBI had dirt on almost every man and woman in the USA. Its the Law Enforcements fault this happened they have become too depended on the internet like the rest of the world . They existed many years without ever using it and you never heard of nothing like this before the internet, Before the internet secrets were kept. Hover took all his secrets to the grave with him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Hes not a wannabe hacker if he got this information to begin with and some data is obviously not out of date or incorrect if this happened: Quote On Sunday, Motherboard obtained the supposedly soon-to-be-leaked data and called a large selection of random numbers in both the DHS and FBI databases. Many of the calls went through to their respective voicemail boxes, and the names for their supposed owners matched with those in the database. At one point, Motherboard reached the operations center of the FBI, according to the person on the other end. One alleged FBI intelligence analyst did pick up the phone, and identified herself as the same name as listed in the database. A DHS employee did the same, but did not feel comfortable confirming his job title, he said. I dont believe you personally know some on the list I think you just saying that to get a reaction out of users. As for the breach no its not f*cking acceptable at all means the FBI and department of homeland security need to train there employees better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SURbit Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Could be some of what is expressed here or none, then again it could be something way different, (I don't know), could be that after the 1st. hack, plans or steps were taken to feed - catch hackers, keep an eye on or identify them. Our government has some shady ways, and then also special units, and it's already known they use malware and exploits to their advantage. Could very well be something downloaded lays in wait. I just know I hate to see the nsane family go at each other One would think some high ranking names would of been leaked, other damming information on the bureau... What's that saying "keep your friends close and your enemies closer". Maybe connecting the dots, of all hostals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 From what I read it looks like a good amount of social engineering was involved. Thats sad I agree with vibranium they need to stop spying on innocent individuals and provide better training to prevent a compromise of there own information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 2 hours ago, Holmes said: I dont believe you personally know some on the list You're probably right but i don't trust people who always defends the feds no ways, hes most likey baiting user feedback. A real FBI agent would try to make you trust them not putting up red flags all the time. 1 hour ago, Holmes said: Thats sad I agree with vibranium they need to stop spying on innocent individuals and provide better training to prevent a compromise of there own information. The FBI was founded on spying on innocent individuals that's never going to change , before most all us was born even its been that way. . There job is to dig up as much dirt as possibly can so if you ever cross them or they need you . You will make a deal with them . Just like the guy that worked for Kim Dotcom and made a deal and released . The deal that gave the FBI an inside man who could testify against Kim Dotcom http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11551882 The white house dont trust the FBI or the NSA with cybersecurity there fixing to hire somebody new that's going work for the white house and hes going be over it all. All them hacking the FBI . IRS , etc, is doing is causing more jobs for new kind of spies . Wishful thinking they would stop but every action causes a reaction and in this case its going make things worse . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 With each action there is a equal or opposite reaction. All these breaches are causing us to realize that we have weak security and untrained personel in a way its good for us Im saying in a way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 23 minutes ago, Holmes said: With each action there is a equal or opposite reaction. All these breaches are causing us to realize that we have weak security and untrained personel in a way its good for us Im saying in a way. White House to hire its first chief information security officer http://www.zdnet.com/article/white-house-wants-to-hire-its-first-chief-information-security-officer/ You should already known we had weak security they have all the USA top secrets stored on the internet of all places . , There going to start cracking down on Hackers now, This was the last straw for the government . How you think FBI was formed way back there ..Local law enforcement could not do there job right , so they hired Hover he made the FBI to take over if they cant handle it. If they cant do there job they will hire someone who will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 I did know we have weak security I have known for years. This particular situation was mostly social engineering tricking personel into giving up login credentials. They should have hired a IT specialist a long time ago. That article was posted today and it says they want to hire meaning they havent yet its good there finally getting there shit together how many breaches did it take for that to happen to many to name: The move to hire a chief security figure for the federal government will likely be seen as long overdue. Thats a excerpt from that article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 11 minutes ago, Holmes said: I did know we have weak security I have known for years. This particular situation was mostly social engineering tricking personel into giving up login credentials. They should have hired a IT specialist a long time ago. That article was posted today and it says they want to hire meaning they havent yet its good there finally getting there shit together how many breaches did it take for that to happen to many to name: It seems to be a real war now they just gave the go ahead of 5 billion dollars to fight cyber crime . There fixing to do something with that 5 billion . That's in that article too. CISA dont go in effect tell almost 2 weeks from now . Things dont look good for people on the internet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 I just read obama wants to have a budget for two thousand fifteen or sixteen one point four trillion dollars (there are many people that dont think this is going to get approved) and cybersecurity is included as one of the reasons why. I disagree with the amount I dont disagree with the reasons why biggest two reason to help fight cancer and to improve cybersecurity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1v1n3D Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 I smell another false flag to push their personal agenda of monitor and control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 16 minutes ago, Holmes said: I just read obama wants to have a budget for two thousand fifteen or sixteen one point four trillion dollars (there are many people that dont think this is going to get approved) and cybersecurity is included as one of the reasons why. I disagree with the amount I dont disagree with the reasons why biggest two reason to help fight cancer and to improve cybersecurity. Congress will not disagree with the part about cyber security .The thing its the fiscal 2017 budget proposal, (Next Year) Obama want even be President but 20 days in 2017 . So he want never be able to do anything with these moneys . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 I read about it today I couldnt remember if it was this year or next. They wont disagree with the reasons no we are in a deficit and that is just going to make it worse our goal is to reduce and completely eliminate the deficit our goal should be to boost cybersecurity yet improve the deficit at the same time we need to not leave the new baby boomers with our problems its not there job to fix our mistakes its ours. We can fix our mistakes and we are lets hope hiring this IT specialist is the first step in that direction. That is true he gets to decide the amount we spend not what we get to spend it on hes making recommendations thats all he can do and Im happy about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straycat19 Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 13 hours ago, Holmes said: I dont believe you personally know some on the list I think you just saying that to get a reaction out of users. As for the breach no its not f*cking acceptable at all means the FBI and department of homeland security need to train there employees better. I don't bait or troll, I just state facts. The only reaction you should have is not to trust everything these so-called hackers post. I looked at the list and know for a fact some of the data is over 7 years old. Make of it what you want. Office phone numbers and email addresses are not classified and are printed on their business cards. What is guarded information is their home addresses and phone numbers and I don't see any of that data in the release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SURbit Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 10 hours ago, steven36 said: Congress will not disagree with the part about cyber security .The thing its the fiscal 2017 budget proposal, (Next Year) Obama want even be President but 20 days in 2017 . So he want never be able to do anything with these moneys . 9 hours ago, Holmes said: I read about it today I couldnt remember if it was this year or next. They wont disagree with the reasons no we are in a deficit and that is just going to make it worse our goal is to reduce and completely eliminate the deficit our goal should be to boost cybersecurity yet improve the deficit at the same time we need to not leave the new baby boomers with our problems its not there job to fix our mistakes its ours. We can fix our mistakes and we are lets hope hiring this IT specialist is the first step in that direction. That is true he gets to decide the amount we spend not what we get to spend it on hes making recommendations thats all he can do and Im happy about that. They (government) dudes should recoup some of the moneys spent on the failing "Obama’s $6bn Security Firewall EINSTEIN" to be put in this budget - not many government offices/dept's use it anyway. Only 5 out of 23 agencies use it - if the government spends this kind of money, then all agencies, offices, dept's should be a mandatory use policy - otherwise that's over 1billion per office now the way it stands - talk about wasted tax payer money / $6bn Security Firewall EINSTEIN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 53 minutes ago, SURbit said: They (government) dudes should recoup some of the moneys spent on the failing "Obama’s $6bn Security Firewall EINSTEIN" to be put in this budget - not many government offices/dept's use it anyway. Only 5 out of 23 agencies use it - if the government spends this kind of money, then all agencies, offices, dept's should be a mandatory use policy - otherwise that's over 1billion per office now the way it stands - talk about wasted tax payer money / $6bn Security Firewall EINSTEIN The USA is so far gone there's no hope asking for 4.1 trillion spending plan on things that not going to help the economy , The last time the economy was really in good shape was when Bill Clinton was in office, Obama care had made things worse on people, There's less jobs than there were in the US than almost 8 years ago when he took office . He's one the worse Presidents we ever had . When Clinton was in there was when the internet was getting started up when people didn't reley on it like they do today . There's never been a time in history since everything switch over too computers that the economy was booming . I like the internet dont get me wrong but it seems to be part of the reason things are as bad as they are ..and tell i see the economy boom in the internet age I will always think this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SURbit Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 36 minutes ago, steven36 said: The USA is so far gone there's no hope asking for 4.1 trillion spending plan on things that not going to help the economy , The last time the economy was really in good shape was when Bill Clinton was in office, Obama care had made things worse on people, There's less jobs than there were in the US than almost 8 years ago when he took office . He's one the worse Presidents we ever had . When Clinton was in there was when the internet was getting started up when people didn't reley on it like they do today . There's never been a time in history since everything switch over too computers that the economy was booming . I like the internet dont get me wrong but it seems to be part of the reason things are as bad as they are ..and tell i see the economy boom in the internet age I will always think this. Not given a vast choice of great presidential candidate lets hope that we can at least get someone in there to start to do some good, then replace congress and senate members to help out down the line. Bottom line is we the people must act and continue to act and not give up. The internet is going to be a great burden to the US if we can't get a handle on it in our lives and nation. I don't have or know the answers but, instead of just reacting the US needs to look at the greater picture and predict what's possible and start counter measures now to a solution, greed is the evil motivation and would be the first plan we should see in place. Offices of the government as well as ruling structured core departments (presidency, senate, congress, as well as states of like) should be made to sign a clause of no profits in office (from outside connections) and 10-15 years after these offices are held. Ha Ha I know far from possible but doesn't hurt to dream. First one must dream or vision to become an reality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 25 minutes ago, SURbit said: Not given a vast choice of presidential candidate lets hope that we can at least get someone in there to start to do some good, then replace congress and senate members to help out down the line. Bottom line is we the people must act and continue to act and not give up . This country's fate was sealed when our government slashed taxes on the rich back in 1980 http://www.salon.com/2014/04/19/reaganomics_killed_americas_middle_class_partner/ Then Bush SR came and cut them for 8 more years .Then things were starting to get better when Bill Clinton was in.. then Bush Jr stole the seat from Gore and cut taxes even more. https://ourfuture.org/fact_sheet/ten-years-bush-tax-cuts-benefiting-rich Then we got Obama who dont know nothing about fixing the economy. The mom and pop shops are gone and all replaced with the greedy rich outfits . The American Dream is dead. Things has got so bad now the greedy rich like Walmart are downsizing too .Because people are running out of money and they get better deals ordering it online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SURbit Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 6 minutes ago, steven36 said: This country's fate was sealed when our government slashed taxes on the rich back in 1980 http://www.salon.com/2014/04/19/reaganomics_killed_americas_middle_class_partner/ Then Bush SR came and cut them for 8 more years .Then things were starting to get better when Bill Clinton was in.. then Bush Jr stole the seat from Gore and cut taxes even more. https://ourfuture.org/fact_sheet/ten-years-bush-tax-cuts-benefiting-rich Then we got Obama who dont know nothing about fixing the economy. Not only that but, Bush Jr. signed that thing with Mexico when in office and all construction job wages suffered from that point on and not only that we had to compete with the flooding of them into the work force. Local communities had to give support for them with departments or start departments to support them. I still hate the fact that either congress or the senate voted down the veterans benefits to gain a pay raise for them self's, just not right to forget the troops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 20 minutes ago, SURbit said: Not only that but, Bush Jr. signed that thing with Mexico when in office and all construction job wages suffered from that point on and not only that we had to compete with the flooding of them into the work force. Local communities had to give support for them with departments or start departments to support them. I still hate the fact that either congress or the senate voted down the veterans benefits to gain a pay raise for them self's, just not right to forget the troops. No Bush JR didn't sign that he done many bad things but that was not his fault. Bill Clinton did, that was the worse thing Bill Clinton done, he done many good things but he signed free trade in . but Obama turned around and has signed another one and trying get pushed trough the house they will never learn. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed into law by President Bill Clinton http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nafta-signed-into-law Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact signed by the Obama administration http://fusion.net/story/265095/tpp-trans-pacific-partnership-explainer/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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