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  • Team GhostShell Ends 2012 With A Bang, Dumps 1.6 Million Public Agency Records

    Christmas is the season of giving, and infamous hacker collective Team GhostShell apparently wanted to celebrate by leaking over a million public agency records. It’s all a part of #ProjectWhiteFox, a movement to promote freedom of information on the Internet.

    Team GhostShell linked to a pastebin press release on its Twitter account yesterday announcing its last hack of the year. In total, the group leaked 1.6 million records from public agencies like NASA, ESA, the Pentagon, and more. Here’s the relevant part of the press release:

    Winter is here and so are we, to present Team GhostShell’s last project. We’ve included plenty of surprises in this one, so hop on our bandwagon, we’re going on an adventure!

    #ProjectWhiteFox will conclude this year’s series of attacks by promoting hacktivism worldwide and drawing attention to the freedom of information on the net. For those two factors we have prepared a juicy release of 1.6 million accounts/records from fields such as aerospace, nanotechnology, banking, law, education, government, military, all kinds of wacky companies & corporations working for the department of defense, airlines and more.

    The group says that they sent out emails to various public and private agencies warning them of security risks. Those messages went unheeded and so GhostShell exploited security holes and made off with the aforementioned 1.6 million accounts. One such target was the Credit Union National Association, which has already acknowledged the attack. It said no sensitive information, like credit card numbers, were taken.

    After all that is said and done, the hacker collective took time out to address the current negotiations at the ITU conference. It hasn’t participated in any of the attacks on the WCIT Web site, but it said that it supports Anonymous’ ongoing efforts in OpWCIT. It also encourages Web sites to “deface” themselves in protest of any further Internet regulation.

    As far as results go, Team GhostShell is probably the most successful in the hacktivist scene. A large majority of Anonymous members rarely actually do anything beyond the odd DDoS attack. Team GhostShell has been dumping records and information all year. This week’s release may be the last of the year, but it’s obviously not the end for one of the Internet’s most infamous groups.

    [h/t: ComputerWorld]

  • Anonymous Leaks 50,000 Wall Street IT Personnel Accounts

    One of the more interesting teams operating with Anonymous is #TeamGhostShell. They are usually the team behind the more malicious attacks that target governments and corporations. Their latest operation, MidasBank, has one target clearly in its sites – Wall Street.

    #TeamGhostShell has so far released around 50,000 accounts from IT personnel who work on Wall Street. The accounts are from current, past and rejected people who have ties with Wall Street. The information was released as the first batch of MidasBank, a place where they will leak all the information they have on the financial sector. In their own words:

    GhostShell has been leaking left and right all kinds of targets, well we’re here to bring some sort of order to it, which is why this district will function solely to provide leaks from an economical point of view, institutional and educational, but primary, it will focus on the financial aspect of things.

    With that being said, what better target to pick as a first release, than the place that puts all markets to shame in the world. Wall Street.

    We won’t link to the dump for obvious reasons, but the leak looks legitimate. There are thousands upon thousands of email addresses, passwords, full names and home addresses for people who may or may not work on Wall Street.

    Interestingly enough, MidasBank withheld 3000 of the resumes that were part of the leaks. Why? They are going to sell them on the black market. It’s no surprise that some of the leaked information is sold, but to see a group freely admitting to it in the release is new to me.

    This year has already been crazy on the Anonymous front. I have a feeling that they’re just getting started. As we head into the election months, expect something crazy from them. I know that Anonymous isn’t a fan of either candidate and they’re going to try something. What exactly? I don’t know, but we’ll let you know once we do.