Monday Mail Mayhem: Anonymous leaks 1.7 GB of Justice Dept data

Published time: May 22, 2012 01:42
Edited time: May 22, 2012 05:42
Screenshot from bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov

The Anonymous hacker group posted 1.7 gigabytes of data on The Pirate Bay. The group says it obtained by hacking into the Justice Department Statistics website. The department also acknowledged that its web server had been breached.

A message accompanying the torrent uploaded by user AnonymousLeaks on The Pirate Bay states that the intention of the action is to “end the corruption that exists, and to truly make those who are being oppressed free.

"Today we are releasing 1.7GB of data that used to belong to the United States Bureau of Justice, until now,” the statement says “Within the booty you may find lots of shiny things such as internal emails, and the entire database dump.

The Anonymous message also stated that the Justice Department tried to shut down its Statistics website, but that it was already too late, as the hackers had managed to get the data they wanted.

A spokesperson for the Department of Justice admitted that one or more unauthorized users gained access to a server operating the department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics website, Reuters reports.

The Justice Department also released a statement to AFP, saying it was looking into the unauthorized access of one of its website servers.

It remains to be seen whether the data contains any incriminating evidence against the US government, as Justice Department Statistics' website primarily contains criminal statistics data.  

The leak appears to be part of a new movement created by Anonymous, dubbed “Monday Mail Mayhem”, or MMM for short, akin to F*ck FBI Friday.

Anonymous DDoS-attacked the Justice Department website earlier this year in response to the shutdown of file-sharing site Megaupload.


Comments (14)

Mike (unregistered) 23.05.2012 21:38

I think it is way too coincedental that the anon group is the hackers involved with the DOJ incident, I think the Govt is involved with it to scare people in the right places to pass their bills that will kill our internet freedom. Just look at it. Why does the Govt have any interest in the movie and music industries and other of similar industries problems? It is simple they have key politicians in their pockets and whine to them to change thing to suit them so they can control more and control us. Its GREED plain and simple.

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PotFace 23.05.2012 01:16

@Hannah

That could be so.  I'm just looking at the situation as a whole here and trying to make some sense out of it.  I think that much of what the government has done since 9/11 is viewed with general contempt by the masses these days.  Let's hope that's a good thing and not something similar to the "Deutschland Erwacht" campaign ran by the pre-WWII Nazis.

In many respects, most of us are left to pure speculation.  The problem with this is that while the US government is entirely untrustworthy, trusting anything else can still get you branded as a "conspiracy theorist" here in the US, and when that happens, the sheeple turn a deaf ear.  All in unison (imagine that).

The good news is, however, that more and more of us are awakening and taking interest in things other than television.  It is inevitable that this will spread into the majority of our population one day.  Uncle Sam knows that he's working on borrowed time.

I would expect to see an intense speeding up of what he has planned for us all in the very near future as a result.  These types of policies are little more than "preparations".  And while he's working overtime to get them pushed on us, we should likewise be working overtime to free as many as we can from the extremely powerful brainwashing campaign that has been waged against us.

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F (unregistered) 22.05.2012 16:48

What do we really know about anonymous expect the fact that one day, they have started appearing all over the news, on every channel...
Not a single group would get the level of attention out of the blue, it has to has government or something...

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