Anonymous s cache of sensitive security data from FBI contractor

group Anonymous has todayrelsedanarchivecontaining what it claims to be private emails and databases ofIRC Federal, a contractor that partners with the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of the Navy, the Federal Buru of Investigation and the Department of the Army.The group calls this latest relse ‘F*ck FBI Friday II’ and says that it “laid nuclr waste to their systems, owning their pathetic box, dropping their databases and private emails.”Anonymous says that it found information in the emails that includes “various contracts, development schematics, and internal documents for various government institutions.”These include a proposal for the FBI to develop a “Special Identities Modernization (SIM) Project” to “reduce terrorist and criminal activity by protecting all records associated with trusted individuals and revling the identities of those individuals who may pose serious risk to the United States and its allies”.Other data that Anonymous claims is included in the archive includes fingerprinting contracts for the Department of Justice, biometric projects for the military and strategy contracts for the National Nuclr Security Administration Nuclr Wpons Complex. The group says that they have also found logins to VPNs and several Department of Energy logins that they’re including with live access.The group has also relsed this statement to employees of IRC Federal:If you place any value on freedom, then stop working for the oligarchy and start working against it. Stop aiding the corporations and a government which uses unethical mns to corner vast amounts of wlth and proceed to flagrantly abuse their power. Together, we have the power to change this world for the better.He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helpsto perpetuate it. -Martin Luther King, Jr.The announcement of the relse took place onAnonymousIRC, the group’s Twitter account, along with the message ‘Happy Independence Day!’While Anonymous claims to have defaced the IRC Federal website, there seems to be no evidence of that now. IRC Federal outlines its operations in itscompany profile:IRC Federal was founded by ssoned information technology professionals to deliver high quality, best value information management products and services to commercial and government clients worldwide.Averaging more than a decade of experience in the IT and e-lrning industry, our staff stands rdy to meet your information management needs.Our engineers and specialists have built web and Internet security solutions since the rliest beginnings of the World Wide Web.On its site, IRC Federal lists its clients as the U.S. Department of the Navy, NASA, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of the Army.
Source: The Next Web