Hackers vow 'hellfire' in latest major data leak

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By Elinor Mills
Security & Privacy
CNET News
August 28, 2012

A group of hackers has released a vast quantity of data from banks, 
government agencies, consulting firms and many others and promised more 
data leaks in the future.

"Team GhostShell's final form of protest this summer against the banks, 
politicians and for all the fallen hackers this year," the group, which 
calls itself -- you guessed it -- "Team GhostShell," wrote in a Pastebin 
post titled "Project HellFire" this weekend. "With the help of it's 
[sic] sub-divisions, MidasBank & the newest branch, OphiusLab. One 
million accounts/records leaked. We are also letting everyone know that 
more releases, collaborations with Anonymous and other, plus two more 
projects are still scheduled for this fall and winter. It's only the 
beginning."

It's unclear how much data was published from how many organizations, 
but security firm Imperva analyzed the data and said some of the 
breached databases contain more than 30,000 records.

"It's hard to say with precision just how much (data was stolen), but 
you can say this is a pretty significant breach," Rob Rachwald, director 
of security strategy at Imperva, told CNET in an interview today.

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