14 DAY TRIAL // Anonymous Cambodia has moved on from launching distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against government websites to actually hacking them. A couple of days ago, they leaked personal and financial data allegedly belonging to government officials.
Now they claim they’ve breached the website of the country’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU.gov.kh). The hacktivists have leaked names, usernames and passwords (in clear text) of 146 administrators.
Most of the credentials appear to belong to users with “simple” admin level. However, there’s one user that has “super” admin level. In addition, Anonymous Cambodia has published a screenshot which shows they had access to the user administration panel of the ACU website.
“These guys are either so busy rooting (lulz) out corruption that they don't have time for minor tasks like changing their passwords, or they are generally incredibly lazy,” the hackers wrote next to the leaked data.
They highlight the fact that all the passwords are very weak. In fact, every user has the same 5-digit password. Furthermore, the logs table is empty.
“Note the admin password, you can tell this poor bastard is like a salmon swimming upstream, too bad he got devoured by a bear called Anonymous,” Anonymous Cambodia members said.
The hacktivists threaten that their attacks against the Cambodian government will continue “until there is a resolution that is satisfactory to the Cambodian people.”
“To the Cambodian government, you do not have a stranglehold on communication within your country, you are simply a few keystrokes away from our grasp. You should fear our reach and realize our resolve will not falter,” they noted.
A few days ago, Cambodian government officials named the Anonymous attacks as being acts of terrorism.
“We are not terrorist, we never use dead people for our interests. We work for freedom of people and freedom of knowledge and information. Our leaks are everywhere. We don't care about your stupid ideas,” Anonymous Cambodia representatives told Softpedia at the time.