According to Techcrunch, a group of hackers has breached websites related to the FBI and published a huge number of files online containing personal data of US police and federal agents.
One of the hackers claimed to have stolen “over a million pieces of personal data.” This data, as mentioned above, belongs to employees of federal agencies and public organizations.
TechCrunch reports that at least three websites associated with the FBI National Academy Association have been hacked. The organization's role is to promote leadership and training at the FBI's training academy, located in Quantico, VA.
The hacker group extracted content from the web servers, which included 4,000 files and many duplicates. It then uploaded the files to its own site. The leaked data included names, phone numbers, job titles, government emails, and postal addresses.
In a TechCrunch interview with one of the hackers, it was revealed that more than 1,000 sites were hacked. The hackers are processing the files and will soon put them up for sale.
The hackers were also asked if they considered this leak dangerous for federal agents and law enforcement. Their answer was: "Probably yes.".
Hackers often steal data and then sell it on hacker forums and dark web marketplaces, but in this case, they said they would be making some of the files available for free to show that there was something "interesting" about them.
In fact, the hacker also sent a link to an FBI-related site that had also been hacked, to show that they have indeed managed to hack many websites.
The hacker, who was contacted, also said that his team used “public exploits.” This means that the sites that were compromised had not received updates and were not properly protected.
Among other things, the hacker presented evidence of other sites that were hacked. Among them is a subdomain of the company Foxconn.
