Anonymous, aiming for relevance, spins old data as new hacks
Anonymous, the once-formidable hacking collective, continued its transformation into a cohort of social media opportunists over the weekend by claiming to “leak” files and personal information that, in some cases, has been available for years. Anonymous said it retaliated against the Minneapolis police department for the May 25th killing of George Floyd by publishing email addresses and passwords apparently stolen from a police website. The information was previously taken in prior data breaches, then re-packaged to appear to be a new batch, according to Troy Hunt, owner of Have I Been Pwned, which tracks stolen credentials. Of the 798 email addresses included in the Anonymous database, 689 are unique, the rest being duplicates. Of that 689, 659 were already available in the Have I Been Pwned database, Hunt said in his analysis, and those email addresses were leaked an average of 5.5 times. Many seem to have originated in the […]
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