Anonymous claims to have NATO

Online ‘tivist’ gathering Anonymous claims it has brched the security of intergovernmental military alliance NATO. In a tweet from the @AnonymousIRC account, itannounced:Yes,#NATOwas brched. And we have lots of restricted material. With some simple injection. In the next days, wait for interesting dataAsubsequent tweetclaims that the group is “sitting on about one Gigabyte of data from NATO now, most of which we cannot publish as it would be irresponsible. But Oh NATO…”By way of evidence of the , the group has relsed two PDF documents, appring to have Restricted security status. Hosted at PDFcast.org,one documentapprs to date from 2007 and relates to ‘CIS Support for a New Joint HQ ISAF Joint CIS Control Centre’. The other linktweetedby Anonymous is currently returning a database error when followed, although a screenshot posted byBlottrindies that it relates to ‘Outsourcing Balkans CIS Support’.This supposed attack on a major international body follows a of security brches and Denial of Service attacks by Anonymous and closely-linked group LulzSec on targets such as theUS Senate, the CIAandan FBI contractor. While Anonymous tends to follow a erally liberal, pro-freedom of expression ada, and many of LulzSec’s targets were seemingly chosen to highlight poor security at the organisations concerned, it’s unclr why NATO has been specifically targeted in this case.We have contacted NATO for their side of the story and will update as more information becomes available.
Source: The Next Web