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    Hackers: We intercepted FBI, Scotland Yard call

    By RAPHAEL SATTER | Associated Press – Fri, Feb 3, 2012

    LONDON (AP) — A sensitive conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard was recorded by the very people they were trying to catch, the hacking group known as Anonymous claimed Friday.

    The group released a roughly 15-minute-long recording of what appears to be a Jan. 17 conference call devoted to tracking and prosecuting members of the loose-knit hacking group.

    The recording's authenticity could not immediately be verified, and it's not clear how the hackers got their hands on it. It appears to have been edited to bleep out the names of some of the suspects being discussed.

    Anonymous also published an email purportedly sent by an FBI agent which gave details and a password for accessing the call.

    "The FBI might be curious how we're able to continuously read their internal comms for some time now," the group gloated in a message posted to Twitter.

    Calls to law enforcement officials on both sides of the Atlantic were not immediately returned.

    Amid the material published by Anonymous was a message purportedly sent by an FBI agent to international law enforcement agencies. It invites his foreign counterparts to join the call to "discuss the on-going investigations related to Anonymous ... and other associated splinter groups." The email contained a phone number and password for accessing the call.

    The email is addressed to officials in the U.K., Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden and France, but only American and British officials can be heard on the recording.

    Emails to the FBI agent and others coded in on the call were not immediately returned, but the discussion itself appears sensitive. Those on the call talk about what legal strategy to pursue in the cases of Ryan Cleary and Jake Davis — two British suspects linked to Anonymous — and discuss details of the evidence gathered against other suspects.

    Karen Todner, a lawyer for Cleary, said that the recording could be "incredibly sensitive" and warned that such data breaches had the potential to derail the police's work.

    "If they haven't secured their email it could potentially prejudice the investigation," she told The Associated Press.

    Anonymous is an amorphous collection of Internet enthusiasts, pranksters and activists whose targets have included the Church of Scientology, the music industry, and financial companies such as Visa and MasterCard.

    Following a spate of arrests across the world, the group and its various offshoots have focused their attention on law enforcement in general and the FBI in particular.

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    Raphael Satter can be reached at: http://twitter.com/razhael

     

    77 comments

    • Head shot
      Head shot  •  3 mths ago
      How much would I have to pay a hacker to get to my mortgage holder's records and mark me "paid in full" with instructions to send me my title/deed to the house as soon as possible?
      • American Citizen
        American Citizen 3 mths ago
        ...just a keystroke away.Hey maybe they're listening?
      • txsailorboy
        txsailorboy 3 mths ago
        I know a way. Takes 7-8 months and less than 10K
    • melee401
      melee401  •  3 mths ago
      ALL of the terrorist groups combined could never do the damage our own congress has done to this nation over the past 40 years. To NOT watch our government very closely would be a very dangerous thing to do at this point. They simply can not trusted.
    • Jon
      Jon  •  3 mths ago
      The good thing about Hackers is that they keep the Government and private institutions on their toes.
    • Wraith
      Wraith  •  3 mths ago
      No surprise here.
      They can't even seem to get the address right when they raid a home these days.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  3 mths ago
      The FBI learned an important lesson about Magic Jack that day.
      • melee401
        melee401 3 mths ago
        I love my magicJack :0 But then I'm not doing dirty.
    • Pedro
      Pedro  •  South Park, Pennsylvania  •  3 mths ago
      FBI: You now know who you should be HIRING...
    • A Yahoo! User  •  3 mths ago
      ... leveling the playing field
    • WALTER
      WALTER  •  3 mths ago
      I think its fine the hackers are keeping track of what our officials are doing, but why not put their skills to work on shutting down all those SCAMMERS IN AFRICA. And make a couple hits on as many terrorists organisations!!! Al-Quida, comes to mind.... Find and hack into some of those phones used in IED"s against our military!!!!! Hackers have high skills at what
      they do, PUT IT TOO GOOD USE!!!!! TRY SAVING SOME LIVES ONCE IN A WHILE!!!!!!!!!!
      • Michael F
        Michael F 3 mths ago
        Maybe they realize that the organization that has funded and trained more terrorists than any other in the history of the world is the corrupted American government?
    • Jl
      Jl  •  3 mths ago
      Very comforting after hundred of millions of dollars are spent on security. HEADS NEED TO ROLL IN THE AGENCIES RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS SHORTCOMING.
      • THETIMEISNOW
        THETIMEISNOW 3 mths ago
        We go back to indian smoke signals and flag signals-hahahahahahah
      • A Yahoo! User 3 mths ago
        Who what huh? It is Leonard Kleinrock's fault. He specified TCP/IP as the internet protocol when it was being developed. This 'shortcoming' is built into the internet and nobody can do anything about it. It was never developed with security in mind. Here is a handy bit of info. Online vid games now start with networking first cause it it very hard to implement later. Same with internet security. It needs to START with security cause there is no real way to implement it later. It didn't start with security.. and soo we are all toast. Like it or not.. the hackers are just getting started and you have seen nothing yet.
    • Black-Shield-67
      Black-Shield-67  •  3 mths ago
      The encryption recipe vendors better rethink their security. Plankton know's the krabby patty formula.
    • Raccoon City Survivor
      Raccoon City Survivor  •  Olympia, Washington  •  3 mths ago
      "Karen Todner, a lawyer for Cleary, said that the recording could be "incredibly sensitive" and warned that such data breaches had the potential to derail the police's work."

      Ya, i think that was their idea....
    • 7againstThebes
      7againstThebes  •  3 mths ago
      The FBI and Yard probably used skype or voxli!
    • Eileen
      Eileen  •  Austin, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      " warned that such data breaches had the potential to derail the police's work." that would be .... the point?
    • Ostin Oley
      Ostin Oley  •  Highlands Ranch, Colorado  •  3 mths ago
      decoy retrace, silly humans.
    • Saint Max
      Saint Max  •  Encino, California  •  3 mths ago
      Technology should be used to liberate people, not to enslave and control.
    • melee401
      melee401  •  3 mths ago
      Under the Patriot Act club fed uses Echelon to monitor millions of calls. If it is OK for them to do that then it must be OK for these hackers to do it as well.
    • Alex
      Alex  •  3 mths ago
      I doubt they actually hacked into the FBI from the outside and stole the emails. They probably did it the old-fashioned way with an inside man. The FBI has more than 30,000 employees, it just takes one with the right access to screw them all over.
    • Jon
      Jon  •  3 mths ago
      Oughta give these guys a job.
    • melee401
      melee401  •  3 mths ago
      If they keep at this it will only be a matter of time before they (hackers) intercept the call that details where Eric Holder's crew will be shipping the next arms package to the terrorist drug thugs in Mexico.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Stockton, California  •  3 mths ago
      Get ready folks. This is just the start. As these guys learn more and more about how to tunnel through the net, authorities can do nothing cause the internet protocol is insecure by nature. The thugs are getting craftier, and the authorities are getting nowhere. They can't secure the net, and the thugs are riding the wave. Sadly, we have seen nothing yet. But we will. And soon.
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