14 DAY TRIAL // A group of hackers claims to have broken into the network of the Italian National Anti-Cybercrime Center for the Protection of Critical Infrastructure (CNAIPIC) and stolen confidential documents and other data.
CNAIPIC is a specialized unit of the Italian Postal and Communications Police established in 2008 to investigate and prevent cyber crimes that could endanger the country's critical infrastructure.
A hacker group called Legion of Anonymous Doom (LOAD) claims to have obtained access to confidential CNAIPIC documents.
The hackers published directory listings and graphs showing a map of the center's computer network. They claim to be in possession of 8 GB of data stolen from the unit.
The group plans to release the entire archive in a series of dumps in order to expose the "exploitation" and "abuse" of evidence gathered by the law enforcement taskforce.
"This corrupted organization gathered all the evidence from the seized property of suspected computer professional entertainers and utilized it over many years to conduct illegal operations with foreign intelligence agencies and oligarchy to facilitate their lust for power and money," the group writes.
The hackers says the evidence in CNAIPIC's possession was not being used for legitimate purposes such as supporting ongoing investigations into cyber criminal activities whose perpetrators are sitting in jail awaiting trial.
The group also claims to have data stolen from other compromised institutions around the world. These include the Egyptian Ministry of Transport and Communication, the Australian Ministry of Defence, Atomstroyexport, Diaskan, Sibneft, Gazprom, and other big companies in Russia, several embassies and consulates in Ukraine, the Nepalese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, several tax-evading companies based in Gilbraltar, Cyprus or Cayman Islands, PetroVietnam and the Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources.
As far as United States go, the hackers claim to have information stolen from "EXXON MOBIL, US Department of agriculture and hundreds of attorneys and DOJ accounts including: McCallion & Associates LLP, Goodkind, Labaton, Rudoff & Sucharow, LLP, and hundreds of [expletive] agencies we don’t even know why we pay taxes to support all of them."
If these claims prove to be true, although the group still has to release any real data, the security breach would be massive and far-reaching. The group claims and association with the Anonymous collective and its Operation Anti-Security (AntiSec).