Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Hackers Post San Francisco Military Data

Hackers have launched other assault on a ride group that cut off mobile phone services at San Francisco stations final week to head off protests.

Hacking group Anonymous voiced on Twitter that the in isolation information of 102 Bay Area Rapid Transit (Bart) military officers had been leaked.

The group claimed shortcoming on Monday for disabling Bart's selling website, myBART.org.

Bart military have been criticised for sharpened deceased a without a country human in July.

Officers mentioned the human lunged at them with a knife, but the murdering has caused open anger.

Bart attempted to end patron protests at a few of its sight stations on 11 Aug by disconnecting its mobile transmitters and crude phone services for its passengers.

On Wednesday, Anonymous voiced by its Twitter account that the Bart military association website had been breached. It was not right away coherent if Anonymous did it.

The hacker group moreover granted a couple in the twitter where Bart officers' home addresses, emails and passwords could be found.

The union's website was infirm after that on Wednesday .

Bart emissary military arch Daniel Hartwig mentioned he had been done wakeful of the breach.

Bart meantime broad executive Sherwood Wakeman mentioned in a ready statement: "We are deeply upset about the safety and safety of our employees and their families."

Anonymous has called is to Bart military force to break up over the 3 July sharpened of the without a country man, and other deadly military sharpened in 2009.

Shortly after the military information was leaked, Anonymous posted a summary on Tumblr.com saying: "Push the incorrect buttons and you will take advantage of what needs to be expelled to the public."

The Federal Communications Commission has mentioned it is questioning either Bart had the right to end mobile phone services for its passengers.

Bart mentioned on Monday that the firm "accommodates fluent actions that are constitutionally stable by the initial legislative addition to the United States constitution".

But a few authorised commentators have mentioned Bart's pierce to inhibit mobile phone use was a breach of giveaway debate beneath the initial legislative addition of the US constitution.

Its actions have been compared to Arab governments' attempts this year to close internet access in reply to pile demonstrations.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California said: " Are you unequivocally peaceful to endure the same silencing of objection here in the United States? "

Last week, the UK supervision mentioned it was exploring either to spin off amicable networks or end people texting during amicable unrest, subsequent to the new riots there.

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