fbi agents Hacker Publishes Personal Info of 20,000 FBI Agents

[Reefa]

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.

 

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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

 

[knowledge-Spammer]

Hacker Publishes Personal Info of 20,000 FBI Agents 

[straycat19]

 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.  

[steven36]

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 ?

[vibranium]

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.

[steven36]

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 

[Holmes]

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:

 

 

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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.

[SURbit]

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. 

[Holmes]

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.

[steven36]

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 .

[Holmes]

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.

[steven36]

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.

 

 

[Holmes]

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.

[steven36]

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

[Holmes]

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.

[D1v1n3D]

I smell another false flag to push their personal agenda of monitor and control.

[steven36]

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 .

[Holmes]

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.

[straycat19]

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.  

[SURbit]

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  

[steven36]

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. 

[SURbit]

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 

[steven36]

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. 

[SURbit]

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.

[steven36]

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/