Hackers post BART cops' personal information

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By Demian Bulwa, Vivian Ho
Chronicle Staff Writers
San Francisco Chronicle
August 17, 2011

(08-17) 19:05 PDT OAKLAND -- Hackers carried out a second cyber-attack 
against BART Wednesday, breaching the website of the union that represents 
the agency's rank-and-file police and releasing a roster of 102 officers 
and other employees along with their home addresses, e-mail addresses and 
passwords for the site.

The roster was published on a separate website, where the hackers wrote, 
"Yet another success."

The hack attack, which the FBI is investigating, was a response to BART's 
decision to temporarily shut down underground cellular and wi-fi service 
at its downtown San Francisco stations Aug. 11. BART had hoped to keep 
protesters from corresponding while trying to disrupt train service.

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