For the glory of Anonymous, hacktivists compromise US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) servers, leaking contact information for hundreds of officials and others associated with the agency.
On Wednesday, July 17, Anonymous hacktivists released a statement revealing names, addresses and other information pertaining to FEMA contractors and others connected to the agency. However, “logins, passwords, SSNs and other details that might genuinely endanger the United States” was “purposefully redacted” from the leak, according to the statement released by the Anonymous hacktivists.
The statement from Anonymous declares the FEMA leak is “dedicated to our fallen comrades, allies and those who fight for the same causes as us. For Jeremy Hammond, for Weev, for Edward Snowden, for everyone who has risked and continues to risk their freedom for their belief in a world free from constant, invasive surveillance.” The statement also asks for the release of Barrett Brown.
According to the statement , Anonymous attacked FEMA as payback for a training exercise the agency used in 2012 to prepare employees for a cyberattack. In the scenario the training exercise made some unfair implications about the international collective known as Anonymous, in particular, linking “financial gain and fraud to activist hackers."
Vice reports the statement from Anonymous contains “a dump of email addresses and contact info for hundreds of contacts: police and fire departments nationwide, FBI special agents, a "Bioterrorism Coordinator Chair," scores of private contractors, and some international contacts at agencies concerned with police work, counterterror efforts, and disaster response.”
Vice also reports the dump contains “a table of user IDs and MD5 hashes of corresponding passwords, presumably for DHS's Integrated Security and Access Control System;” as well as “a small set of what appears to be descriptions of training exercises (sample title: "Monitoring Weather Conditions and Taking Necessary Precautions") that date from 2004-2007.”
The following is an excerpt from the statement released by Anonymous:
Yo dawg, we heard you like wargames, so we played a wargame with your wargame so you can wargame while we own your servers and embarrass you.
Hello FEMA, Anonymous here, shall we play a game?
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Sometimes the internet really is serious business.
Anonymous does not wave the white flag. Not while we are faced with a daily stream of abominable revelations from Edward Snowden and others, not while the battle for the very soul, the very original purpose, of the internet escalates in severity daily.
We are not fighting any one government or corporation, we are fighting any enemy of freedom of speech and anyone compromising the right to remain anonymous online, without fear of reprisals from governments or corporations with the legal authority or financial resources to destroy the lives of anyone who dares express opinions contrary to their own official line.
Anonymous is not about patriotism, nationalism or religious extremism, we are the angered, disaffected collective of an incredibly diverse cross range of idealistic, moral and at times nihilistic netizens, as viewed through a virtual kaleidoscope. We are not against any one country or corporation. However if you are an enemy of anonymity, if you oppose free speech, you are our foe, it is as simple as that.
You cannot, you do not and you will not stop Anonymous, we will eventually come for you.
The statement concludes with “For freedom. For the glory of Anonymous.”
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