Anonymous Steals 10,000 Iranian Government Emails 116
Several readers have sent word that Anonymous has hacked servers belonging to Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, making off with over 10,000 emails.
"The Ministry’s website is still down as of this writing, and the servers are under Anonymous control. ... The email archive includes approvals and rejections for a variety of visas and passports, among other requests and correspondence. 'It’s near the election’s anniversary. We had to do something,' said one of the Iranian members of Anonymous from #OpIran. He said they take down Iranian government servers on a regular basis for operation days, but that obviously retrieving information required a different approach to the group’s signature DDoS attack. He also indicated an as-yet unannounced attack. 'For the election’s anniversary, we have a complete DDoS attack day' planned, he said.
Ironically Enough (Score:5, Informative)
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Torrent. (Score:5, Informative)
Besides the obvious political angles, releases like these are probably a boon to academics doing work with text mining and the like. Public releases of email data sets have been hard to come by, something about "privacy". Of course, they're probably unlikely to all be in English, so your mileage may vary...
Re:encrypted archive (Score:3, Informative)
Epic fail.
Quote the site:
The security of our proprietary process...
Tour data is fully sheltered by our unique encryption process.
Re:So this is a horrible, evil thing, (Score:2, Informative)
Maybe. If our State Dept. got hacked, people would freak out even if it was just a bunch of "where are we going for lunch" messages.
It would also be considered an act of war by the US, and some assholes will certainly call for retaliation with cruise missiles.