Anonymous apparently exploited aweak spot in a system connected to the Fed in retaliation against the U.S. government's prosecutionof Internet activist Jason Swartz, who committed suicide while facing hacking charges. The incident raised awareness not onlyof the group's cause, but also of the unaccountable vulnerability of sensitive government systems to common attack vectors.
The hactivist collective Anonymousannounced via a tweet during last Sunday's Super Bowl that it had published a document dump including publishing private data tied to more than 4,000 U.S. bank executives.It included a spreadsheet containing login information and credentials, along with IP addresses and personal contact information pulled from a St. Louis Fed Emergency Communications System database,ZDnet reported.The website used for the data dump belongs to the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC). The page extensionURLwas ominously titled, "oops-we-did-it-again."
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