AntiSec Releases Stolen Police Data for Revenge

Time to hide under your desks, everyone: AntiSec has declared (cyber)war on the police.

Notorious hacker group AntiSec (short for anti-security) is releasing 10GB of Law Enforcement data as revenge for the recent arrests of suspected AntiSec members in the U.S. and U.K. The leak includes confidential emails, passwords, credit card numbers, and addresses from 70 different police stations. AntiSec, in collaboration with Anonymous and members of the recently disbanded LulzSec, says it is “releasing a massive amount of confidential information that is sure to embarrass, discredit and incriminate police officers across the U.S.” Meanwhile, the Black Hat and DefCon hacker conferences in Las Vegas are highlighting the vulnerabilities in outdated computer systems that run “power plants, chemical factories, water distribution systems and other industrial facilities” worldwide.