Anonymous hacks Italy's critical-national-IT protection

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/25/italy_anon_hack/

Hacktivists have posted "secret documents" stolen from an Italian
cybercrime unit.

The documents – 8GB of files – were extracted from a system maintained
by the Centro Nazionale Anticrimine Informatico per la Protezione
delle Infrastrutture Critiche (CNAIPIC), the organisation charged with
guarding the country's critical IT infrastructure. In a message on
Twitter announcing the release, Anonymous said it had received the
files from an unnamed "source", prior to posting a sample of the files
onto Pastebin. "#AntiSec strikes at Italy Government. Silent no more,"
it said.

The stolen documents reportedly include confidential data stored on
servers that held evidence related to investigations as well as
documents on the management structure of CNAIPIC and pictures of
staff, among other files. Data on private firms including Gazprom and
Exxon Mobil as well as foreign governments also appears to be among
the cache.
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