Surveillance Software Vendor is Victim of Large Scale Hacking

Italian surveillance firm Hacking Team, a company that provides technology for state intelligence agencies to infiltrate computer networks, was itself hacked in a breach that exposed more than 400 gigabytes of data. “The breached trove includes executive emails, customer invoices and even source code; the company’s Twitter feed was hacked, controlled by the intruders for nearly 12 hours, and used to distribute samples of the company’s hacked files,” explains Wired. “These are the equivalents of the Edward Snowden leaks for the surveillance industry,” said Eric King, deputy director of Privacy International. “There are few countries [Hacking Team] aren’t willing to sell to. There are few lines they aren’t willing to cross.”

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