14 DAY TRIAL // The Anonymous hacktivist collective claims to be sitting on around 1 GB of stolen NATO files, but says that publishing them would be irresponsible.
In order to prove that they don't kid around, the group has published a single NATO file marked as restricted which dates back to August 2007.
However, the 36-page document doesn't contain anything truly sensitive, "restricted" being one of the organization's lowest levels of document classification.
"Hi NATO. Yes we haz more of your delicious data. You wonder where from? No hints, your turn. You call it war; we laugh at your battleships," the hacktivist group wrote on Twitter.
However, the hackers did say that the files were obtained through a simple SQL injection. "NATO is aware that a hackers group has released what it claims to be NATO classified documents on the internet.
"NATO security experts are investigating these claims. We strongly condemn any leak of classified documents, which can potentially endanger the security of NATO Allies, armed forces and citizens," the organization said.
The group responded to the statement by saying "RLY. Guess what we did NOT leak?" and then adding that "we are sitting on about one Gigabyte of data from NATO now, most of which we cannot publish as it would be irresponsible."
That's an interesting point of view considering that so far the group hasn't held back from publishing sensitive information stolen from other organizations.
The hackers are also now undecided regarding the emails stolen from The Sun, which they promised to publish this week. "We think actually we may not release emails from The Sun, simply because it may compromise the court case," the hackers tweeted.
Back at the end of June, NATO warned users of its e-Bookshop site that their information might have been stolen during a cyber attack. The organization said at the time that its electronic Bookshop does not contain any classified data.