So Who Hacked EC-Council Three Times This Week?

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By William Knowles
Senior Editor
InfoSec News
February 28, 2013

On February 22nd 2014 the EC-Council website was broken into and defaced by 
Eugene Belford (a.k.a. The Plague). For those of you living in a cave, or a 
compound outside of Abbottabad for the last 13 years, The EC-Council is an 
Albuquerque New Mexico based organization that offers security professionals a 
reasonably inexpensive certificate among other security certificates. to be 
compliant with DoD 8570. The website was defaced, and its content was replaced 
with a picture of Edward Snowden, and an HTML comment that gives away the 
identity of the "hacker" that compromised the EC-Council website.

After EC-Council wrestled back control of their site, a known password was 
reused, and two days later re-defaced the website showing the mail from Edward 
Snowden's Yokota Air Base e-mail asking for an exam code, a copy of his U.S. 
Passport and a letter from John A. Niescier, an Information Security Officer 
with the Department of Defense Special Representative, Japan stating that he 
has verified Edward J. Snowden has at least five years professional information 
security experience in the required domains.

After the hacker mentioned "P.S It seems like lots of you are missing the point 
here, I'm sitting on thousands of passports belonging to LE (and .mil) 
officials" conspiracy rumors were swirling about who may have attacked the 
EC-Council website. Foreign training companies, secret squirrels, the Chinese, 
Russians, non-state actors.

On February 25th, EC-Council website was defaced a third time.

The folks at r000t’s Blag have found done some digging and on the surface its 
pretty damning evidence.

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