14 DAY TRIAL // Metropolitan Police representatives deny being hacked by members of TeaMp0isoN. They believe that the recording between the employee of the anti-terrorist hotline and the other law enforcement organization was made via “the receiving handset.”
“We have throughout the day researched the allegation that the Anti-Terrorist Hotline had been ‘hacked’ and ‘activists’ claims that they were able to listen unrestricted to confidential communications,” Ailsa Beaton, director of information for the Metropolitan Police Service, said.
“We are confident the MPS communication systems have not been breached and remain, as they always have been, secure. We are satisfied that any recording would have been made via the receiving handset only and not from an attack on internal systems,” she explained.
“The public can remain confident in the ability to communicate in confidence and that the integrity of the Anti-Terrorist Hotline remains in place.”
This all comes after the hacktivist group phone bombed the organization’s telephones and made a number of audio recordings available, one of which allegedly represented a conversation between an MI6 agent and, according to the hackers, possibly the FBI.
“The script is based on the Asterisk software and uses a SIP protocol to phone. Everytime they picked up the phone the server would play a robot voice which said ‘teamp0ison’,” TriCk, the leader of TeaMp0isoN, told us on Wednesday.
It’s highly possible that the internal systems of MI6 were not in fact breached and that the recording was obtained because of a handset that was somehow left turned on, but that doesn’t make this much better. The hackers wanted to mock the anti-terrorist hotline and they did.
Anyway, back in 2011, when the United Nations denied being breached, the hackers made available proof to demonstrate that the server they extracted information from was not outdated. It’s likely that we will see evidence of the break-in in this case as well, if there was one.
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