This rouge hacker group released their latest intrusion into Arizona Department of Public Safety’s internal servers..
Lulz Security, a group of hackers who have claimed responsibility for a number of recent online data attacks, said Thursday that it had successfully breached the Arizona Department of Public Safety’s internal servers, gaining access to hundreds of law enforcement documents, police profiles and e-mails.
The group posted a huge log of data it said it had obtained, releasing them on public file-sharing Web sites and a link via its Twitter account.
Lulz Security said in a news release that it had chosen to attack Arizona law enforcement because it the group is opposed to the state’s law against illegalimmigration.
A Department of Public Safety spokesman, Capt. Steve Harrison, said the biggest worry was the release of personal information about officers, which could endanger their safety. He said the documents appeared to be authentic but were sensitive, not confidential.
The content of the documents obtained by Lulz Security include what appear to be the names, addresses and phone numbers of Arizona law enforcement officials. The data also covers hundreds of documents described as “not for public distribution.”
Some of the documents offer instructions and manuals for interrogating individuals who have been arrested.
The documents also include intelligence the department has collected about gangs in Arizona and Mexico..
Lulz Security also said it planned to release “more classified documents and embarrassing personal details of military and law enforcement” in the coming weeks.
In the last several months Lulz Security has attacked a number of government and private Web sites, including Sony, the Senate’s Web servers and the Central Intelligence Agency’s Web site.
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