Anonymous defaces BART site, leaks user data

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20092221-93/anonymous-defaces-bart-site-leaks-user-data/

By Eric Mack
Digital Media
CNet News
August 14, 2011

Anonymous has apparently made good on a promise to wreak havoc on the 
Web site of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System today, although not 
exactly as planned.

Earlier, the amorphous collective had threatened to take Bart.gov 
offline for six hours today, or twice the amount of time BART managers 
took cell phone service offline at some BART stations Thursday night in 
order to head off a planned protest then. The distributed denial of 
service (DDoS) attack was supposed to begin at noon pacific time, 
according to a release from Anonymous.

As of 30 minutes past noon, the BART site was still online but running a 
little slow and with one notable change to the mybart.org Web site, 
which currently displays the Anonymous logo as seen below.

As screen captures of the defacement began rocketing around Twitter, 
news came that Anonymous hackers had also accessed and posted online a 
database of mybart.org with user e-mails and some addresses and phone 
numbers.

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