Aaron Barr, CEO of security company HBGary Federal, spent the month of January trying to uncover the real identifies of the hacker collective Anonymous—only to end with his company website knocked offline, his e-mails stolen, 1TB of backups deleted, and his personal iPad wiped when Anonymous found out.
Anonymous Working Through New Info Related To U.S. Government
Feb. 8 2011 - 7:28 pm | 2,427 views | 0 recommendations | 5 comments
Having regained notoriety through hacking and defacing the online identity of a software security firm in Washington D.C., Anonymous has set it sights on some much bigger fish: the federal government.
The group Tweeted earlier this evening that its scrap with security firm HBGary and CEO Aaron Barr, who it alleges wanted to divulge details about the group to the FBI, is just the tip of the iceberg:
A source within the group was mum on what exactly its next action would entail, or when anything would be divulged in a presumably Wikileaks-style communique. But its members appear to be working through e-mails obtained from Barr (which Anonymous has released to the public as a torrent) and security researcher Greg Hoglun (which it has not).
Hoglun is a co-founder of HBGary and recently told Kreb On Security that Anonymous had crossed a line, and that posting the company’s email online would expose internal, proprietary data that would likely cost HBGary millions of dollars. “They didn’t just pick on any company, but we try to protect the US government from hackers,” he said. “They couldn’t have chosen a worse company to pick on.”
-Parmy Olsen
Forbes
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