2012 by Jon Russell

Hacking group Anonymous has claimed it has grabbed 1.7 GB of data belonging to the US Justice Department, although the US organisation has played down the sensitivity of the haul that was taken from one of its websites.

In the latest move against the DoJ, the hacktivist collective says that the information in its control includes “internals emails” and “the entire database dump” from the website, which the it says the DoJ subsequently took offline.

The leak was announced alongside a torrent with the data and a statement, which included:

Today we are releaseing [sic] 1.7GB of data that used to belong to the United States Bureau of Justice, until now. Within the booty you may find lots of shiny things such as internal emails, and the entire database dump. We Lulzed as they took the website down after being owned, clearly showing they were scared of what inevitably happened.

It is not entirely clear what prompted the latest action against the DoJ, but Anonymous says it is releasing the data to “spread information, to allow the people to be heard and to know the corruption in their government.”

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