Police data leaked as cop confab kicks off

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20124208-83/police-data-leaked-as-cop-confab-kicks-off/

By Edward Moyer
CNet News
Security
October 22, 2011

According to a report in VentureBeat, Anonymous posted a notice on 
Pastebin late Friday claiming it had leaked more than 600MB of 
information gained by hacking into Web sites associated with the 
International Chiefs of Police (IACP), the Boston Police Patrolmens' 
Association, and law enforcement agencies in Alabama's Birmingham and 
Jefferson counties. The notice cited by the blog no longer appears to be 
on Pastebin, but another release was posted today.

The leaked information includes internal documents, membership rosters, 
Social Security numbers, addresses, passwords, and other data, Anonymous 
says in today's release. The group, and other hackers involved in its 
Antisec movement, said that in addition to being a statement of support 
for the police brutality protest and a jab at the IACP's conference 
kickoff (both events happen today), the leak and associated Web site 
defacements were performed in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street 
protests currently taking place in New York, Boston, and elsewhere.

"The IACP thought they could hold their 2011 annual conference in 
Chicago unfettered by the clutches of insurrection," today's notice 
reads. "They must not have known their conference starts on the Day of 
Action Against Police Brutality. They must not have known that all over 
the world people are in the streets demonstrating discontent with 
capitalism and the state. They also had no idea that for the past few 
months black hat hackers have been owning their Web sites and databases. 
They should have expected us."

Of course, it's not the first time Anonymous has leaked such 
information. In June, the collective released data pertaining to the 
Arizona Department of Public Safety, a move that led the department to 
express concern about the safety of its officers.

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