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The founder of cybersecurity firm Hacking Team has finally spoken out over the attack that saw 400GB of its data dumped on the internet, insisting: "We're the good guys".
The breach was confirmed by security analyst Troy Hunt, who verified a sample of the stolen data dumped on to the internet, which contained a wealth of customer information including the names, genders, birth dates and addresses of children.
Beyond mere "denial of service" tactics that blocked sites with floods of junk data, the hackers also ramped up their attacks to penetrations of any vulnerable target available to them, resulting in tens of thousands of Israeli citizens' and supporters' private data dumped onto the Web.
In some cases, the data may not even be accessible to the first hacker because secondary hackers can exploit the breach and overwrite the original intrusion and payment demands -- basically stealing the same information again, with the data dumped or sold in the process.
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Wikileaks has subsequently created a searchable archive of Hacking Team emails pulled from the data dump.
Meanwhile, the impact of the Hacking Team data dump continues to affect wider cubersecurity.
We converted the XML data dump files into a SQLite3 database.
Download the data dump and place XML files into directory xml/ - see xml/README.txt.
Bernard Robertson-Dunn, from the Australian Privacy Foundation, described it as an "uncontrolled, uncurated, data dump".
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