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Anonymous Hacks US Census Bureau Against TPP/TTIP

  • 25 July 2015
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July 25, 2015  By Pierluigi Paganini
 
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Anonymous hackers announced to have compromised the US Census Bureau against TTIP/TPP and leaked data online as proof of the data breach.

 
Anonymous hackers announced to have compromised the US Census Bureau against TTIP/TPP. The members of the popular collective are the same that hacked World Trade Center (WTC) according to the colleagues at the Hackread.com. The experts at Hackread which analyzed the data confirmed their authenticity.
 
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And here I am wondering if they should not be taking a census return from all hacker sthat manage to get in...LOL 😉
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By Eduard Kovacs on July 27, 2015 Representatives of the United States Census Bureau have confirmed that hacktivists of the Anonymous movement have breached part of the organization’s systems.

The attackers have leaked thousands of usernames, passwords, email addresses, and other data obtained from a census.gov subdomain. The hackers said the attack was a form of protest against the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade agreements. Full Article
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The following article is a update
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U.S. Census Bureau says breach didn't expose household data.

By Jeremy Kirk
 
The U.S. Census Bureau said a data breach early last week did not expose survey data it collects on households and businesses.
The leak came from a database belonging to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse, which collects audit reports from government agencies and other organizations spending federal grants, wrote John H. Thompson, the Census Bureau's director, on Friday.
The exposed information included the names of people who submitted information, addresses, phone numbers, user names and other data, he wrote.
A group calling itself Anonymous Operations posted a link on Twitter leading to four files. The cyberattack was allegedly in protest of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, two pending trade agreements that have been widely criticized.
 
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What was that about horses, stable doors and bolts?

28 Jul 2015 at 20:40, Shaun Nichols
 
Despite downplaying the severity of the leak, it appears that the US Census Bureau is indeed scrambling to improve security in the wake of the network breach. Among the top priorities are training for its staff members on security best practices.
 
According to a requisition order first spotted by NextGov, the agency is seeking a contractor who can provide training to census office employees on phishing safety.
 
The listing asks for a contractor to develop and maintain a custom training and support portal for as many as 50,000 bureau employees who would be shown how to spot and handle potential phishing and targeted spear phishing attacks. We wonder why.
 
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Too little, too late!
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 Car hackers, farmers fixing their high-tech tractors, and teenage DVD rippers; all over the world, these digital tinkerers could have their devices seized and destroyed by the authorities thanks to provisions in the newly-minted Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.   
 
      http://motherboard.vice.com/read/white-hat-hackers-would-have-their-devices-destroyed-under-the-tpp
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What little we have heard/been told so far, I have to say I do not like it to this point.  Not at all really
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Completely agree with you David...thin end of the wedge. I would worry how such legislation could 'spread' to cover other areas and to target others for whom it was never intended at all.
 
It is a difficult balance and I think that rather than abrupt moves like this that are so general the whole thing should be more targeted, and legislators should pay more attention to detail rather than being lazy and ending up hurting the unintended more than those they set out to get.
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