All sites down, webmasters don't have DB backups

Feb 4, 2016 23:00 GMT  ·  By

The Blink Hacker group, a known division of the Anonymous hacker collective, has leaked the databases of 100 websites belonging to Thai prisons.

This action is part of the group's long-lasting BoycottThailand campaign, which protests the death sentence dished out to two Myanmar workers.

We won't rehash the campaign's specifics yet again since we treated this topic before. You can find more details about this Anon operation in our previous stories, which discussed incidents related to the group defacing 14 Thai police websites, when they leaked about 1GB of data from Thailand's Supreme Court, and when they launched DDoS websites against 20 Thai prison sites.

The group published the leak yesterday, but all the servers where the stolen data was hosted have been taken down by the time of writing this article.

In a Facebook post, the group says that this latest attack and the subsequent data leak are because the lawyer of the two Myanmar prisoners said they were singled out and mistreated while incarcerated.

Thai Khaosod newspaper didn't reveal any details on the "mistreatments" but said that the two and their lawyers were still preparing an appeal to the initial ruling and that they might still have a chance to reverse the death sentence verdict.

In the meantime, all the prison sites are down.

"We pwned their prison web server, and put their sites down," the hackers explained the current outage. "And still their sites cannot be restored yet due to missing their databases. FTW! (Are they smoking crack?, no backup database LOL)."