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90,000
email addresses hacked from US military contractor
Tuesday July 12, 2011 09:05:42 PM,
IANS
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London:
Hackers have attacked the computer network of a US military
contractor and stolen 90,000 email addresses, the Telegraph
reported.
A wing of hacking group Anonymous said it had broken into the
systems of Booz Allen Hamilton and then posted the details on the
internet.
The daily said the hackers were "apparently only able to get
encrypted versions of the email passwords". Around 53,000 of them
carried the military ".mil" domain.
The hackers also wiped out four gigabytes of the Booz Allen source
code in the attack they called "Military Meltdown Monday".
"We infiltrated a server on their network that basically had no
security measures in place," the group said in a statement.
Booz Allen provides technological services including
cyber-security consulting to the US military and other government
agencies.
A spokesman said its security policy meant "we generally do not
comment on specific threats or actions taken against our systems".
The hacking group later responded with the comment: "You have a
security policy? We never noticed."
Anonymous has earlier hacked companies like Amazon, Bank of
America, Mastercard and Visa.
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