Monday, September 26, 2011

Anonymous publishes home addresses of Austrian police

Anonymous publishes home addresses of Austrian police

The Hacktivsten by Anonymous on Monday night have in the address data of
around 25,000 people on the Internet that will work for the Austrian
police. The records that were uploaded into a table in the anonymous
document platform usable past html, consist of name, mailing address,
date of birth. Anonymous Austria hinted on his Twitter account that it
was not a very common hack. The records were the hacktivists been rather
"made ​​available".

Why are the home addresses of police officers were then placed on the
Internet, Anonymous, only vaguely justified with a reference to data
retention. A spokeswoman for the Austrian Interior Ministry declined to
comment on the incident on Monday morning not to . Those responsible
talking currently, will there be a connection in the press release.
According to a report of the Austrian newspaper Der Standard, the Home
Office has confirmed the incident.

Update : A spokeswoman for the Interior Ministry said in an interview ,
the published address data came from the holdings of a "police-related
association." If it were not expressly to hacker attack, but an
unauthorized disclosure of data. The authority had already been
submitted to a display at the Vienna public prosecutor and informed the
police officers concerned about data leakage.

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