Anonymous targets US defence consultant

          Post stolen 90,000 email addresses, passwords of Booz Allen Hamilton on Pirate Bay. Online hacktivist group Anonymous has posted stolen data after breaching into the database of US defence consultant Booz Allen Hamilton.

          Booz Allen provides technological services including cyber-security consulting to the military and other US government agencies. Angered over the UK government's proposed extradition of whistleblower site WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, and the phone hack scandal, yesterday, the group had warned that the world would see the biggest hack attack to date.

          It had warned the Metropolitan Police and judiciary that embarrassing details about them would be revealed soon. However, the group attacked the US defence consultant instead under the antisec campaign. The group published a file with over 90,000 e-mail addresses, passwords, logins and other information, which it claims have been stolen from Booz Allen Hamilton.

          The group said it was surprised how easy it was to hack the site. It said, "We infiltrated a server on their network that basically had no security measures in place." The hacker group has posted the stolen information on The Pirate Bay file-sharing site, which has been shortlisted by US ISPs as an illegal website.
Booz Allen Hamilton has not commented on the matter so far. Anonymous had done something similar a few days ago.

          It breached the database of IRC Federal, an IT contractor that works for the FBI and other federal agencies in the US and then posted the information they stole from the website, including internal documents and e-mail information. Anonymous is infamous for bringing down the websites of MasterCard and PayPal after the companies withdrew financial services to WikiLeaks. The hacking group has also used DDoS attacks to target government websites in Syria, Tunisia, Egypt and India over online censorship, corruption and other political issues.

          Last month, another hacker group LulzSec and Anonymous had announced the "AntiSec" campaign against Internet regulation by governments across the world. The two most prominent hacker groups in the Web world said that they will work together in their attacks against targets related to government such as banks.

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