14 DAY TRIAL // The hacker known as Hanom1960 has breached, stole, and leaked information from Colombia's Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications and Ministry of National Education.
Hanom, who claims he's part of the newer generation of LulsZec members, made its debut on the hacking scene last week, after hacking and dumping data from the Costa Rica's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Government data dumped online
The hacker's most recent shenanigans allowed him to be in possession of a new batch of data, which he recently uploaded online and contains troves of personal information about Colombian government employees.
The database belonging to the Ministry of Education contains usernames, for both site users and administrators, hashed passwords, real names, emails, telephone numbers, birth dates, employee roles, area of expertise, and employee codes. The data dump includes details for over 2,800 users.
The database belonging to the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications included data on some of the Ministry's digital and physical assets, and also some personal details for persons with administrative accounts on various of the Ministry's equipment/nodes.
Over 1,300 such entries were included, with data like employee names, email addresses, passwords, and equipment addresses.
Data dump wants to bring attention to the country's corrupt political class
In a private Twitter conversation, Hanom1960 pointed Softpedia to an El Tiempo article which shows some of the rampant corruption that's affecting Columbia' political class.
The article in question talks about an official investigation into various cases where local Columbian authorities have diverted state funds for unnecessary and foolish expenses like the purchase of vehicles, smartphones, floral arrangements, and personal meals.
Hanom1960 also revealed to Softpedia that he plans to release another data dump in the following days, containing information acquired after breaching Chile's government websites. Just as before, he justified the attack as a way to highlight corruption in that country as well.
If these are his true reasons, then Hanom is going to be a busy man this year, since most governments around the world face similar corruption cases and allegations every day.
