Fraternal Order of Police servers hacked
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Hacker exposes private data of America’s biggest police union
A hacker has breached the computer systems of the Fraternal Order of Police, the biggest police union in the US. Files containing private information of officers, private forum posts and contracts were included in the data dump.
The anonymous hacker shared the data as a 2.5 GB torrent file on a blog called Cthulhu on Thursday, and it was subsequently circulated via social media. A total of 18 terabytes (TB) of data was stolen, the hacker claims, but only a small fraction has been released so far because of the “classified or sensitive” nature of much of the information.
The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), which represents more than 325,000 law enforcement officers nationwide, said that the FBI is investigating the breach. The union’s website, fop.net, was still offline as of Friday morning.
“We have contacted the office of the assistant attorney general in charge of cybercrime, and officials from FBI field offices have already made contact with our staff,” National FOP President Chuck Canterbury said in an interview, according to the Guardian.
Canterbury said that hackers had only leaked bargaining contracts made with regional authorities, and that he was confident that no sensitive personal or financial information. These contracts include agreements on vacation pay, sick leave, and department badge purchases, according to Motherboard.
The Guardian reported that some of the contracts leaked have been criticized as shielding officers from the consequences of excessive use of force.
Canterbury blamed “anti-police rhetoric” for the hack, but insisted that that the hacker could not have acquired 18 TB of police information because the FOP did not even have that much data to begin with.
In a Thursday Facebook post, Canterbury implicated the hacking group Anonymous for the breach and said that the attack “appears to have originated outside of the United States.”
The person who took credit for the attack corroborated this in the blog post, saying that he lives in the UK, and offered to arrange a "civil" meeting with law enforcement in his home country.
Anonymous has denied any involvement in the hack, via one of the Twitter accounts associated with the group.
In the original post on the Cthulhu blog, the individual responsible said that the data should be used to keep police accountable rather than attack them.
https://www.rt.com/usa/330631-hacker-police-union-data/
A hacker has breached the computer systems of the Fraternal Order of Police, the biggest police union in the US. Files containing private information of officers, private forum posts and contracts were included in the data dump.
The anonymous hacker shared the data as a 2.5 GB torrent file on a blog called Cthulhu on Thursday, and it was subsequently circulated via social media. A total of 18 terabytes (TB) of data was stolen, the hacker claims, but only a small fraction has been released so far because of the “classified or sensitive” nature of much of the information.
The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), which represents more than 325,000 law enforcement officers nationwide, said that the FBI is investigating the breach. The union’s website, fop.net, was still offline as of Friday morning.
“We have contacted the office of the assistant attorney general in charge of cybercrime, and officials from FBI field offices have already made contact with our staff,” National FOP President Chuck Canterbury said in an interview, according to the Guardian.
Canterbury said that hackers had only leaked bargaining contracts made with regional authorities, and that he was confident that no sensitive personal or financial information. These contracts include agreements on vacation pay, sick leave, and department badge purchases, according to Motherboard.
The Guardian reported that some of the contracts leaked have been criticized as shielding officers from the consequences of excessive use of force.
Canterbury blamed “anti-police rhetoric” for the hack, but insisted that that the hacker could not have acquired 18 TB of police information because the FOP did not even have that much data to begin with.
In a Thursday Facebook post, Canterbury implicated the hacking group Anonymous for the breach and said that the attack “appears to have originated outside of the United States.”
The person who took credit for the attack corroborated this in the blog post, saying that he lives in the UK, and offered to arrange a "civil" meeting with law enforcement in his home country.
Anonymous has denied any involvement in the hack, via one of the Twitter accounts associated with the group.
In the original post on the Cthulhu blog, the individual responsible said that the data should be used to keep police accountable rather than attack them.
https://www.rt.com/usa/330631-hacker-police-union-data/
Fraternal Order Of Police Hacked, Private Files Reveal Criticism Of Obama, Sonya Sotomayor
Electronic files of the Fraternal Order of Police — the United States’ largest police union — were hacked Thursday, revealing a series of forum posts criticizing President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor and undocumented immigrants, the Guardian reported. The names and addresses of officers as well as various contracts between police agencies and the cities they are located in were also released in the data dump. By early Friday afternoon, the FOP’s website was offline.
The FBI is investigating the hack, and the head of the FOP, Chuck Canterbury, said while some information was taken, more sensitive information such as financial details were most likely not compromised.
“Some names and addresses were taken,” Canterbury said. “It concerns us. We’re taking steps to try to notify our members but that is going to take some time.”
One 2010 post from a private forum by someone who went by the name of Robert Schafer wrote Obama was both anti-police and anti-law and order. Another post, from 2009, called Sotomayor a radical socialist, and said FOP officials shouldn’t have endorsed her.
Police unions, including the FOP, have been highly critical of Obama in the wake of the high number of police-involved shootings of civilians in the past two years, including the killing of Michael Brown, who was black, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, which sparked national protests, the Hill reported. Obama said after said after the Ferguson unrest there was no excuse for violence against police officers, but that there is also no excuse for police to use excessive force.
Contracts that numbered in the hundreds were also released in the data dump, some of which have been scrutinized in the past year in the wake of the officer-involved shootings. Some groups have criticized the contracts for making it more difficult to prosecute police officers involved in these shootings, the Huffington Post reported.
http://www.ibtimes.com/fraternal-or...eveal-criticism-obama-sonya-sotomayor-2286286
The most corrupt labor union in the country.
The FOP contracts make it nearly impossible for police to face criminal charges.
The FOP contracts make it nearly impossible for police to face criminal charges.
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