WaPo | Anonymous is continuing its protest of federal computer crime law.
Members claiming to be part of the hacking collective Sunday posted the
names and contact information of over 4,000 banking executives to the
government Web site of the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center.
The file is no longer available on the government Web site, which was
inaccessible as of Tuesday morning.
The file was posted to the Web site Sunday night and publicized
through a Twitter account associated with an Anonymous initiative called
“OpLastResort,” a report from ZDNet said.
The information in the file includes professional and personal contact
information for bank presidents, chief operating officers and others,
and log-in information. A quick check of several of the officials’ names
shows they are currently employed at the banks listed in the file,
indicating that the information is fairly recent. Some of the data in
the file may have come from Federal Reserve computers.
The Federal
Reserve acknowledged the attack in a Tuesday statement. “The Federal
Reserve system is aware that information was obtained by exploiting a
temporary vulnerability in a website vendor product. The exposure was
fixed shortly after discovery. It is no longer an issue. This incident
did not affect critical operations of the Federal Reserve system,”
spokesman Jim Strader said.
The Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center did not respond to requests for comment.
