900 admin usernames and passwords were leaked from the Chinese company

Jun 4, 2012 09:03 GMT  ·  By

Swagg Security, or SwaggSec, the same hacker collective that breached Foxconn a few months ago to highlight the poor working conditions, has made its comeback. This time they claim to have gained access to the systems of Warner Bros and China Telecom.

According to the hackers, they’ve obtained a number of 900 administrator credential sets.

“China Telecom's SQL server had an extremely low processing capacity, and with us being impatient, after about a month straight of downloading, we stopped. However, a few times we accidentally DDoS'd their SQL server. I guess they thought nothing of it, until we left them a little message signed by SwaggSec,” they stated.

“They realized they were hacked, and simply moved their SQL server. No changing of admin passwords, or alerting the media. At any moment, we could have and still could destroy their communication infrastructure leaving millions without communication.”

As far as Warner Bros is concerned, SwaggSec claim to have gained access to their “whole intranet.” Apparently, the movie studio’s IT staff has identified the breach, but they've failed to do anything about it.

The hackers found that the critical vulnerabilities that affected the Warner Bros systems were documented by the IT department, but since most of them remained unaddressed, the hackers leveraged them to poke around the company’s networks.

The torrent file posted by SwaggSec on The Pirate Bay doesn’t contain only the administrator details from China Telecom, but also some other information taken from their databases.

“Warner Bros also makes an appearance in the torrent, with another in depth statement, and all their critical ‘confidential’ IT data, and some other miscellaneous data we decided to quickly throw in from their servers,” the hackers explained.

So far, Warner Bros and China Telecom haven’t released official statements to deny or confirm the hackers’ claims, but we’ll update this post as soon as new information becomes available.