Anonymous breaches another US defense contractor

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219319/Anonymous_breaches_another_US_defense_contractor

By Jeremy Kirk
IDG News Service
August 19, 2011

The politically oriented hacking group, Anonymous, has released 1GB of 
what is says are private e-mails and documents from an executive of a 
U.S. defense company that sells unmanned aerial vehicles to police and 
the U.S. military.

The documents were publicized in a post on Pastebin, with links leading 
to the actual material on another website. The material purportedly 
belongs to Richard Garcia, a senior vice president at Vanguard who was a 
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agent for 25 years.

Anonymous took special delight in the breach, as Garcia is director of 
InfraGard, an organization that liaises between private sector companies 
and the FBI.

A group affiliated with Anonymous called LulzSecurity, or LulzSec, 
breached and defaced one of InfraGard's websites belonging to its 
Atlanta chapter in June.

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