Hacker of Protest Warrior caught!

[RakuraiTenjin]

Thank goodness. My family's CC#'s was one of the ones compromised due to this. Glad they nabbed him.

Here's the newsletter sent out.

In January 2005, Jeremy Hammond and the hacker group collectively known as the
"Internet Liberation Front" gained illegal access to the Protest Warrior server.
Thousands of customer credit card numbers were then stolen for the purpose of
making millions of dollars in donations to various leftwing organizations. In
early February, Protest Warrior discovered the illegal breach and the identity of
the criminals responsible.

Using the hacker recruiting ground www.hackthissite.org, Jeremy Hammond put
together and led a team of politically motivated "hacktivists" to probe the
Protest Warrior server for months until an exploit was found. When an obscure
vulnerability was discovered in the PW server's newsletter subscription code,
they managed to upload malicious files that gave them the ability to execute
commands on the server.

Upon discovering the hack, we immediately began collecting information on the
breach and managed to penetrate Jeremy's inner circle. We then collected
evidence that more than 5,000 credit card numbers had been stolen by Jeremy and
the "Internet Liberation Front" and that they were planning on doing the
following:

*charge hundreds of dollars per stolen credit card number as donations to
various left-wing organizations by using an automated donation submission script

*send the entire Protest Warrior HQ database (complete with usernames,
passwords, and operation details) to left-wing groups hostile to Protest Warrior
(including the entire contents of our mail server)

*upload all credit card numbers and other sensitive customer information to
hundreds of anarchist and left-wing sites (specifically Indymedia) as a
downloadable zip file

*anonymously send press releases and material to thousands of media contacts
to boast of the malicious hack and the millions of dollars defrauded, and to
publish any and all sensitive information regarding the Protest Warrior
organization

*erase the entire PW server

*launch simultaneous attacks on other conservative sites

Upon discovering their plans, we contacted the FBI and the Secret Service, who
immediately began investigating the case. We were able to provide them with a
tremendous amount of evidence regarding the breach, the criminals responsible,
and their plans to commit massive credit card fraud. We also reported the
incident to all credit card companies involved to make sure that
Protest Warrior's customers were protected. With our help, the FBI was able to
thwart Jeremy and his army of "hacktivists".

After contacting the FBI, we immediately hired a security consultant and removed
all sensitive information from the server. We eventually moved the server to a
new box, where we blocked off the system and data files from the web server and
changed the online store software to a super-secure system that stores zero
sensitive customer information. In addition, we hired an internet security firm
to run a series of vigorous vulnerability tests on our server, which our server
all passed.

The reason we haven't made this announcement earlier is that our customers were
already protected and we didn't want to jeopardize the ongoing FBI investigation
of Jeremy and his "hacktivist" army.

The reason we're posting this now is that Jeremy, in a desperate move, is
publicly appealing to the internet community regarding his pending FBI
investigation. Using his site www.freejeremy.com, he is trying to solicit
donations for his defense fund and generate public sympathy while spreading
slanderous disinformation regarding Protest Warrior and the events leading up to
the FBI investigation.

We will soon be releasing much more information and details regarding the
incident and the ongoing FBI investigation. Rest assured, justice will be
served.

-Kfir and Alan

 

[Tr0n]

Look at all those *.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Look at all those *.

The site shouldn't have been blocked due to the actions of people like Moderate Centrist :/

 

[Kangy]

Glad he got caught! Sorry to hear about your CC, there. I recently had the same thing, for a online MMORPG. I belong to a very close group, and we often trade addresses and such for meet-ups, and a hacker in an opposing group took it too far and compromised it all. Not a nice feeling.

 

[Tr0n]

The site shouldn't have been blocked due to the actions of people like Moderate Centrist :/

The site sucks ass anyways.Oh and yea...sorry to hear about your CC thingy.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

The site sucks ass anyways.

No it doesn't.

Regardless of if someone thinks it sucks that's not a valid reason to censor it.

 

[Tr0n]

Yes it does suck...which is enough of a vaild reason to block it.We're probally gonna keep going on about this for a while...

 

[Foxtrot]

****ing owned, I hope that punk Jeremy gets what he deserves, some hard time in prison.

 

[bliink]

Before this turns into a hl2.net vs PW thread, I'm going to close it.