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Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Bureau of Investigation Data Breach (2012)

Federal Bureau of Investigation

highVERIS
Disclosed

January 1, 2012

5199 days ago

Records

1.6M

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Government

Description

The hacking collecting GhostShell has announced it has finished operations for the year, but has signed off with a dump of around 1.6 million account details purloined from government, military, and industry. The group claimed the accounts come from the ESA, NASA, Pentagon, Federal Reserve, Interpol, FBI, and firms in the aerospace and military contracting field, as well as some security companies. It also claims to have sent emails highlighting failures in 150 servers to the security chiefs of the hacked organizations.