Anonymous Anonymous Hacks Thai Police, #OpSingleGateway Still Alive

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Anonymous Hacks Thai Police, #OpSingleGateway Still Alive

Hacktivists leak data on Thai police officers

Anonymous activists have breached the servers of Thailand's police, stolen and then leaked private information about its officers and some of its evidence. This attack was part of the group's long-lasting #OpSingleGateway campaign.

Operation Single Gateway, or #OpSingleGateway, is a coordinated series of cyber-attacks, all with the purpose of drawing national and international attentions to the Thai's government Internet censorship plans.

Thailand has been planning for months to funnel all the country's Internet connections through one single Internet gateway. Recent plans have the government putting this gateway server into the hands of CAT, a state-sponsored ISP.

Anonymous is trying to prevent Internet censorship in Thailand

According to previous statements on this topic, Anonymous has come to the support of the Thai people because the group perceives the government's single Internet gateway plan as a method of replicating China's infamous Great Firewall structure.

Anonymous and the government's detractors claim that by implementing a single gateway Internet mainframe, the government, via the CAT dummy-company, will be in full control over the country's Internet traffic. This means they can easily filter it or spy on its citizens.

As a response, Anonymous, together with F5CyberArmy, have launched a series of DDoS attacks on government sites at the start of October.

At the end of October, Anonymous returned and launched a second series of more powerful DDoS attacks on the website of CAT Telecom. During this incident, the hackers also managed to steal data about the single gateway Internet access plan, which they made public.

New attacks part of the #OpSingleGateway operation

During the past weekend, Anonymous hackers resumed their attacks on Thai government websites, and this time around, they managed to steal data from the Thai police servers, which they've uploaded on a text-sharing site (password-protected).

We weren't able to find the password anywhere, but reporters from Hacked validated the data (see screenshot below).

The data was also accompanied by a statement from the hacktivists, which mocked some of the Thai police officers.

"To prove our point we are demonstrating the inability of the Thai government to secure even their own police servers, it is pitiful and should worry all of Thailand," read the statement. "Your police are protecting their files with passwords like 12345; it would be funny if it weren't so sad."

While the Thai government won't be deterred by these cyber-attacks or the data leaks, public opinion in Thailand and abroad is growing, and this may be exactly what Anonymous wanted.

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