Anonymous releases hacked military information

SECURITY AWARE activist group Anonymous turned its attentions to the US military yesterday as it celebrated Military Meltdown Monday with the release of 90,000 pieces of personal information.

The loosely-linked group, which is working on what it calls Antisec, is attacking a range of targets, including media rights holders, IT security firms and GM food companies. This week its attention turned to Booz Allen Hamilton and the personal information that it holds.

The group released the 130MB file yesterday, and with it the email addresses and password hashes of 90,000 military personnel.

According to its release the group has also taken source code from the firm along with a complete SQL database dump.

"Hello Thar! Today we want to turn our attention to Booz Allen Hamilton, whose core business is contractual work completed on behalf of the US federal government, foremost on defense and homeland security matters, and limited engagements of foreign governments specific to U.S. military assistance programs," reads the introduction to the leak.

"We infiltrated a server on their network that basically had no security measures in place. We were able to run our own application, which turned out to be a shell and began plundering some booty. Most shiny is probably a list of roughly 90,000 military emails and password hashes (md5, non-salted of course!). We also added the complete sqldump, compressed ~50mb, for a good measure."

As well as releasing this information, Anonymous also posted some details about the people who work at Booz Allen Hamilton and their activities.

These include its "Questionable involvement in the U.S. government's SWIFT surveillance program; acting as auditors of a government program, when that contractor is heavily involved with those same agencies on other contracts," and, "the implication was also made that Booz Allen may be complicit in a program (electronic surveillance of SWIFT) that may be deemed illegal by the EC."

More is expected to come from the group today, and one of its more vocal members, Sabu, tweeted late yesterday that he was working on something rather big.

"We are working on two of the biggest releases for Anonymous in the last 4 years. Put your helmets on. It is war," he said. µ