14 DAY TRIAL // Hackers have published a new torrent containing data allegedly stolen from the government of Zimbabwe, an Australian municipal council, Universal Music Group, Viacom and various Brazilian government departments.
According to the press release accompanying the leak, the data was captured by hackers and groups associated with Operation Anti-Security.
The AntiSec campaign was launched by LulzSec before the hacker group disbanded this past weekend, and involves hacking into the websites and computer networks of governments and affiliated organizations worldwide.
The Anonymous hacktivist collective vowed to carry on the campaign together with other hackers who answered LulzSec's call.
"The introductory #AntiSec release (dubbed AntiSec-001) does not contain the type of data that a typical Lulz Lizard can just abuse mindlessly.
"Instead, we provide material that is primarily against corrupt Governments (in our world this is all Governments) and corrupt companies," the hackers wrote in their press release.
This doesn't mean the data cannot be abused. Dumped archives corresponding to data from Universal Music Group and the Brazilian government contain login credentials.
Meanwhile, the Viacom archive includes mappings of its internal network and servers, information that puts the company at risk of further attacks.
The AntiSec hackers claim that this is just a small quantity of the data they've already obtained and that the rest is also being prepared for future release.
Operation AntiSec has become a sort of WikiLeaks that obtains the sensitive information itself instead of relying on whistleblowers and in contrast to LulzSec, which did the same thing for fun, AntiSec supporters have a political motivation.
"#AntiSec is more than Lulz and more than even Anonymous: It is our true belief that this movement has the capability to change the world. And should that fail, we will at least rock the world," they write in their manifesto.