Most of the information appeared to have been culled from internal government directories, including employees’ email addresses, phone numbers and job titles.
The breach also appeared to have been socially or politically motivated, rather than as some other form of criminal activity, with some DotGovs tweets includingpro-Palestinian messages, reported SlashGear.
The hacker also claims to have hundreds of gigabytes of data from a Department of Justice (DOJ) computer, although this information has yet to be released.
The hackers said that the DOJ Helpdesk asked the required login data available, they provide access to a used by that employee workplace.
Several news outlets were contacted by the hackers on Sunday evening and given a preview of the data, including Vice’s Motherboard blog and FedScoop. And, before the Super Bowl, the hackers warned Vice’s Motherboard what they were up to. For the full article click here
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