Anonymous hacks Iran's foreign office web server, steals 10,000 emails

[thewayne]

This is pretty cool. I don't know how much information will come of this, we'll just have to see. The article describes it as lots of chatter over visa applications.

http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/06/03/anonymous-steals-10000-iranian-government-emails-plans-ddos-attack/

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/03/1848240/Anonymous-Steals-10000-Iranian-Government-Emails

FYI, Slashdot seems to be having some cache server problems and may not give you anything except a 503 error.

Comments

[silveradept]

Maybe we should ask Anonymous to see whether there's a WMD program in Iran. Since they seem to hack in fairly frequently and all.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Hard to say if the Iranian foreign office is typical of the entire Iranian government network. By their own admission Iran has a nuclear program, or at least something resembling one after Stuxnet got done with them, hard to say how much is bravado and how much is reality.

[silveradept]

True, but it certainly seems like something in their wheelhouse. Knowing them, they'd probably do something like expose all the nations of the world that have nuclear programmes.