August 15, 2011 at 20:14Anonymous hacked BART railway company website
On Sunday, Anonymous hackers attacked the site of BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit system), a suburban rail company in San Francisco. As a result of hacking, contact information on hundreds of users of the site was in the public domain. This action was performed by hackers in response to the disconnection of BART’s leadership of cellular communications at several stations for a period of three hours.
Earlier, hackers from the Anonymous group warned that they would disable the www.bart.gov website at noon for six hours — twice as much as the outage time.
Meanwhile, the names, addresses, phone numbers and mail accounts of myBART users were publicly available. Interestingly, the hacktivists apologized to the citizens whose data they published. In their opinion, affected people should contact BART and ask why its employees did not ensure the confidentiality of their personal data.
Jim Allison, a BART spokesman, did not comment on the incident, citing a lack of time to analyze the situation. Meanwhile, he assured that the BART security service is doing everything in its power to ensure the protection of company data.
Recall that on July 3, a BART security officer shot and killed a certain Charles Hill, who, according to a guard, attacked him with a knife. On July 11, a protest rally followed, during which demonstrators blocked the Civic Center metro station during rush hour. Last Thursday, the rally was to be repeated, however, in order to deprive protesters of their ability to coordinate their actions, the BART leadership disconnected cellular communications at four stations, thereby preventing traffic collapse. It was this act that aroused the dissatisfaction of the Anonymous hackers, who traditionally oppose censorship of information and restrictions on freedom of speech.
via pcworld
Earlier, hackers from the Anonymous group warned that they would disable the www.bart.gov website at noon for six hours — twice as much as the outage time.
Meanwhile, the names, addresses, phone numbers and mail accounts of myBART users were publicly available. Interestingly, the hacktivists apologized to the citizens whose data they published. In their opinion, affected people should contact BART and ask why its employees did not ensure the confidentiality of their personal data.
Jim Allison, a BART spokesman, did not comment on the incident, citing a lack of time to analyze the situation. Meanwhile, he assured that the BART security service is doing everything in its power to ensure the protection of company data.
Recall that on July 3, a BART security officer shot and killed a certain Charles Hill, who, according to a guard, attacked him with a knife. On July 11, a protest rally followed, during which demonstrators blocked the Civic Center metro station during rush hour. Last Thursday, the rally was to be repeated, however, in order to deprive protesters of their ability to coordinate their actions, the BART leadership disconnected cellular communications at four stations, thereby preventing traffic collapse. It was this act that aroused the dissatisfaction of the Anonymous hackers, who traditionally oppose censorship of information and restrictions on freedom of speech.
via pcworld