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Exclusive Interview: Team GhostShell Leader Takes a Break from Hacking

As we mentioned earlier, DeadMellox, the leader of Team GhostShell, revealed that he has decided to take a break from the hacking scene for an undetermined period of time. Before he does that, we’ve asked him to offer us an interview to find out more about the impact of his group’s operations. The hacker...

1 March 2013
09:31 GMT

Team GhostShell Leader Details the Tricks He Played on Law Enforcement Agencies

After leaking millions of pieces of information from the systems of organizations from all over the world, Team GhostShell has become the target of several law enforcement agencies. In an interview we’ve had with DeadMellox, the leader of the group, he has detailed some of his encounters with the authorities. ...

1 March 2013
03:59 GMT

Team GhostShell Targets African Organizations, Leaks 700,000 Records

Hacktivists from Team GhostShell have initiated ProjectSunRise, a campaign that focuses on “Africa’s heart.” As part of this operation, the hackers have targeted organizations from South Africa, but also from other countries such as Nigeria, Algeria, Kenya and Angola. “In South Africa things ...

29 January 2013
02:46 GMT

GhostShell Hackers Leak 1.6 Million Records from over 30 High-Profile Sites

Team GhostShell returns with another massive data leak. On this occasion – which represents their last project for this year – they’ve leaked around 1.6 million account details from fields such as banking, law, education, military, government and aerospace, as part of a new project called ProjectWhi...

10 December 2012
07:51 GMT

Softpedia Exclusive Interview: DeadMellox of Team GhostShell Hacker Group

Team GhostShell has made a lot of headlines over the past period. That’s because, usually, its operations don't affect just a single company, but hundreds at a time. Their first major campaign, launched back in May, targeted China. At the time, the hackers leaked the details of 100,000 user accounts, stol...

13 November 2012
09:06 GMT

Hackers Steal 2.5 Million Records from Russian Government, Other Organizations

Hackers part of the Team GhostShell collective are back in their typical style, leaking 2.5 million records stolen from government, educational, political, law enforcement, telecoms, research, medical, academic, financial and other high-profile Russian organizations. This latest campaign is called Project BlackStar. ...

2 November 2012
07:09 GMT

Japanese Government Investigates Major University Data Breaches

At the beginning of October, Team GhostShell published around 120,000 record sets collected after breaching several of the world’s most important universities. Since some of the affected educational institutions are from Japan, the country’s government has launched an investigation into the matter. The a...

6 October 2012
04:26 GMT

ProjectWestWind: Hackers Leak 120,000 Records from World’s Top 100 Universities

At the end of August, hackers part of Team GhostShell published the details of around 1 million accounts stolen from over 100 websites worldwide as part of an operation called Project HellFire. Now, the collective has turned its attention to the world’s top 100 educational institutions in what they call Project...

1 October 2012
09:56 GMT

Hackers Leak 1 Million Accounts from Over 100 Websites Worldwide

Unlike other hacker collectives which breach websites and immediately tell the world about their accomplishment, Team GhostShell prefers to target multiple websites before unveiling their work. They claim to have breached over 100 sites worldwide, leaking a total of around 1 million record sets. The hacks are part o...

27 August 2012
02:57 GMT

IT Wall Street Hacked, 50,000 Accounts Leaked

One of the members of the Team GhostShell hacker collective claims to have breached the systems of IT Wall Street – a website dedicated for those in search of an IT job in the financial services industry – to show his support for Occupy Wall Street. “Hello there! My name is Masakaki, part of the Far-Eastern Fi...

18 July 2012
08:26 GMT

Hackers Leak over 200,000 Account Details in ProjectDragonFly

Hundreds of thousands of record sets from the databases of various sites worldwide have been published by TeamGhostShell as part of the operation they call ProjectDragonFly. “I am proud to say that #ProjectDragonFly is still pretty much alive and ready to raise awareness once more against the Communist Party, ...

4 July 2012
03:11 GMT

Team GhostShell Protests Against Extremists by Hacking Italian Government Sites

Team GhostShell’s leader, the hacker known as Echelon, has revealed the launch of a new campaign called ProjectWestWind, an operation aimed at “extreme-right nationalism and racism” in politics. “As some of you may know (although not nearly as many as it should be), Europe has these past few ...

12 June 2012
03:51 GMT

ProjectDragonFly: 100,000 Accounts Leaked from Chinese Sites

After taking a short break, Team GhostShell hackers return with an operation called ProjectDragonFly, a campaign aimed at China and particularly at the country’s government. “I've been looking into China's actions in more detail since a couple of months ago and I've learned quite a bit ab...

2 June 2012
04:00 GMT

Team GhostShell Hacks University of Arkansas Computer Store

Members of Team GhostShell have managed to gain unauthorized access to the official computer store of the University of Arkansas (uarkcomstore.com). The breach was meant as a form of protest against the recent law enforcement operations that targeted hackers. The hackers have dumped tens of thousands of records, com...

16 April 2012
10:51 GMT


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