OpenStack 07/09/2015 (a.m.)

• Hacking Team: the Hack on Us Was Not Done by 'Some Random Guy' | Motherboard

  Hacking Team admits that the hack occurred and that the documents are genuine.

  Tags: surveillance state, Hacking-Team, breach, admissions

  • - By Paul Merrell

  • Almost 48 hours after an unnamed hacker announced the breach of Hacking Team, exposing more than 400GB of secrets, the Italian surveillance tech company is investigating what happened, and coming out of its radio silence.

    The cyberintrusion, which was “quite sophisticated,” was likely the work of people “with a lot of expertise,” according to the company spokesperson Eric Rabe, who spoke with Motherboard on the phone from Milan, where he flew after finding out about the attack.

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