California Statewide Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) Data Breach (2012)

Part of the message left by Anonymous on the CSLEA site stated the "California police have a notorious history of brutality and therefore have been on our hitlist for a good minute now." AntiSec hackers had a "good laugh" after reading some of the private email correspondence, but claimed to have been passing "around their private password list amongst our black hat comrades" for the past two months to guarantee more "abuse." Furthermore, the hacktivists posted, "What we were really after was their membership rosters, which included the cleartext password to 2500 of their members, guaranteeing the ownage of many more California pigs to come."