The Anonymous hacking group has taken another swipe at police in Arizona, launching online attacks against several police union websites and publishing e-mail messages stolen from law enforcement officers.
Anonymous said it had defaced eight Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) websites and was releasing a list of more than 1200 police usernames, passwords and e-mail addresses. It encouraged other hackers to search through “everybody’s inbox to retrieve and expose their secrets,” it said in a statement.
It also published personal e-mail messages of several FOP members containing passwords, credit card numbers and, in some cases, anti-immigrant chain e-mail messages.
Representatives from the affected Fraternal Order of Police organizations did not reply to messages seeking comment Friday.
Anonymous, along with another now-disbanded hacking group, LulzSec, has been running an ongoing “Antisec” attack against government, law enforcement and corporations for weeks now. In two separate incidents, it has previously released e-mail messages belonging to the Arizona Department of Public Safety and other police data.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety has called the hackers a “cyber terrorism group.”
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