Anonymous Hacks Department of Justice releasing 1.7 GB of data that used to belong to the United States Bureau of Justice

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May 22, 2012  -  Public

“Today we are releasing 1.7 GB of data that used to belong to the United States Bureau of Justice, until now,” reads an Anonymous press release, referring to the Department of Justice. “Within the booty you may find lots of shiny things such as internal emails, and the entire database dump.”

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Anonymous is taking credit for a confirmed hack of a Department of Justice server that hosts statistical information.

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P. Warren BrownMay 23, 2012

Of course the DOJ got cracked; they have a Winblows server, after all!

Grey GeekYesterday 4:35 PM

A totally worthless collection of files. The qwerty.rar file contained a copy of itself, doubling its size. Most of it was coldfusion8 files, templates and other house keeping files. IF Anonymous thinks this "haul" was significant they are truley amateurs. All they did was scrape a website. Important data was in the Oracle database.

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