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Hacked documents reveal sensitive details of expanding border surveillance

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech...g-border-surveillance/?utm_term=.692f8285e943

The recent cyberattack on a U.S. Customs and Border Protection subcontractor didn’t expose just the faces and license plates of thousands of U.S. travelers. It also revealed the inner workings of a complex surveillance network that border authorities have long sought to keep secret.
CBP officials have downplayed the significance of the material taken in the hack, saying only that fewer than 100,000 photos of travelers had been compromised and that none of those had been posted to the “dark Web,” the corner of the Internet where stolen documents are often traded and displayed.
That assessment, however, woefully understates the number of sensitive documents that are now freely available on the Web — so much material, totaling hundreds of gigabytes, that The Washington Post required several days of computer time to capture it all.
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I don't know who executed this hack, but it wouldn't surprise me if home-grown Trump haters carried this out to thwart ICE from doing its job. It could have been outside groups for sure, but it's sad to have to accept the possibility of American hackers doing this.
 
It was almost certainly someone inside the defense contractor, unless they were just completely asleep on information security. Good job MIC, tax money well spent!

I'd start with their network/security team, since they routinely have access to everything whether they should or not, because the people who are authorized to have it frequently lack the expertise to secure it.

If they didn't do it, then they should be able to at least provide a somewhat accurate picture of who had access.
 
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The term “Trump hater(s)” is becoming as irritating as the post fix “gate” after any whiff of scandal.
 
Jetboogieman said:
The term “Trump hater(s)” is becoming as irritating as the post fix “gate” after any whiff of scandal.
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Now we have Trump-hatergate!

See what you did!?
 
I wanna play too.


It was Drug Cartels in the conservatory with a spear phishing email.
 
American said:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech...g-border-surveillance/?utm_term=.692f8285e943


I don't know who executed this hack, but it wouldn't surprise me if home-grown Trump haters carried this out to thwart ICE from doing its job. It could have been outside groups for sure, but it's sad to have to accept the possibility of American hackers doing this.
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It could just as easily be the other side playing the victim. One way or another, their security sucks.

By any chance, were things important on those emails going to be made public soon? Russians don't have better things to do.
 
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Simon W. Moon said:
I wanna play too.


It was Drug Cartels in the conservatory with a spear phishing email.
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:lamo


Well, that's irritating, you beat me to it.

Anyone else wanna wait for an actual investigation, before laying this blame at the feet of an entire demographic?
 
Jetboogieman said:
The term “Trump hater(s)” is becoming as irritating as the post fix “gate” after any whiff of scandal.
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Trump-Hater-Gate!

lol

Though I do like how the OP is like "I don't know who did this, but I will wildly speculate along partisan lines".
 
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