Two hackavist groups, Anonymous & Lulzsec, have acquired 10 gigabytes of police information. Here's a paragraph from the linked article:
"The leak contains hundreds of compromising email spools, personal information about officers, police training videos, contents of insecure anonymous tip systems, over 300 mail accounts from 56 law enforcement domains, the Missouri Sherriff account dump (7000+ usernames, passwords, home address, phones and SSNs), online police training academy files, Plesk plaintext server passwords, the “report a crime” snitch list compilation and stolen credit card information from the mosherriffs.com online store."
It's a double-edged sword. We place data online so it can be more accessible and share-able with those who need it but at the same time can be jeopardized if groups are persistent enough. So far there hasn't been any successful attacks on Google's cloud-based information storage. Read more:
#Antisec hackers release 10GB of law enforcement data | Ubergizmo
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