Seventy police web sites are attacked in the name of Antisec

SEVENTY POLICE WEB SITES in the US were attacked and taken offline on the day that the Metropolitan Police charged the alleged Lulzsec mouthpiece 'Topiary' in the UK.

If the police thought that they could scare or silence the hacktivists with attitude then they were wrong, as while the media spotlight shone on a court in London, the torches of the ninja pirates were peering into police web sites and databases and stripping them of booty.

According to at least one sheriff nothing of importance was taken from his organisation, but perhaps he had not realised just how far the pirate arm reaches.

In a follow up to his claims, made in a local paper to Baxter, the AnonymousIRC twitter account had this to say, "... no critical details like names, social security numbers on their server." (link to personal details) You dense much? #AntiSec #FreeTopiary"

The account then singled out other law enforcement agents and added more links. "And hello Michael Covington, (address removed), Password: (removed). I mean, really. Honesty plays better", said one other that was quickly followed with, "Hello again, Sheriff's Association Executive Director Mick Covington. We haz no data?(link) Stay tuned," and then, because it was obviously rain on Mick Covington day, "Ohai again, Mick Covington (link removed) You realize we have gigabytes of this shit?"

There are actually ten gigabytes of this stuff, according to a statement from the group that was pasted onto at least one hacked police web site.

"In retaliation to the unjust persecution of dozens of suspected Anonymous 'members', we attacked over 70 US law enforcement institutions defacing their websites and destroying their servers," it reads.

"Additionally, we have stolen massive amounts of confidential documents and personal information including email spools, password dumps, classified documents, internal training files, informant lists, and more to be released very soon. We demand prosecuters immediately drop all charges and investigations against all 'Anonymous' defendants."

The 10GB booty includes email spools from police officers, which if the Arizona releases are anything to go by will not make for particularly nice reading, as they included usernames, passwords, social security numbers, addresses and phone numbers, training files, and a list of police informants.

How well protected this information was we cannot say, but whatever protection was there it was apparently not good enough.

Or, as one Antisec statement has it, "YEAH WE OWNED YOUR NEW SERVER TOO! SHOULDA EXPECTED US ... HACKLOG COMING SOON!!"

The hacktivists called for the law to drop the charges against anyone involved in the Anonymous attacks on Paypal and warned it that police intimidation tactics will not deter them. µ