Hacker Group Lulz Security Publishes Cache Of Private AZ Dept. Of Public Safety Files

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by Frances Martel | 10:48 pm, June 23rd, 2011

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Hacker group “Lulz Security” has made headlines before for wreaking various forms of havoc on websites as varied as PBS.org to CIA.gov, but tonight they have put on their political activist hat and released what they claim is hundreds of top secret documents of Arizona’s police force, in an attempt to protest anti-illegal immigration bill SB1070. The Arizona police have confirmed they have been hacked.

Lulz Security, which emerged in May 2011 and has until now kept most of its attacks lighthearted, including those in the name of Wikileaks, typically has kept its work to hacking sites with comical and false information, or releasing non-political secret data, like the hidden files of reality TV program The X Factor. Today, they released a full-fledged data-dump by the name of “Chinga la Migra” (which is Mexican slang for “f*ck the INS”– “migra” is short for “inmigración”) to show, they claim, the true nature of SB1070 and fight Arizona’s “police state”:

We are releasing hundreds of private intelligence bulletins, training manuals, personal email correspondence, names, phone numbers, addresses and passwords belonging to Arizona law enforcement. We are targeting AZDPS specifically because we are against SB1070 and the racial profiling anti-immigrant police state that is Arizona. [...]

Every week we plan on releasing more classified documents and embarrassing personal details of military and law enforcement in an effort not just to reveal their racist and corrupt nature but to purposefully sabotage their efforts to terrorize communities fighting an unjust “war on drugs”.

Rachel Maddow broke the story on her program tonight and added a fair bit of insight on the release– most importantly, that the Arizona police have confirmed a hacking, though not the specific files released. She also notes that the release comes with far less comedy than their other work– “they are typically sarcastic and snarky… there’s none of that going on here.”

Maddow’s report via MSNBC below:

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slickerwick

What, no bongo drums?
Alice67

Kick ass!
WCinWI

Alice67 said:
Kick ass!

I’m glad you finally approve of Breitbart!
slickerwick

Alice67 said:
Kick ass!

Who are you cheering on? Rachel or Lulz? Rachel had a disapproving tone when reading the story. They also hacked PBS. What do you have against PBS? What kind of little libby are you? Or are you merely a nihilist at heart?
slickerwick

WCinWI said:
I’m glad you finally approve of Breitbart!

Zing!
Alice67

WCinWI said:
I’m glad you finally approve of Breitbart!

Breitbart is Lulz Security? Breitbart is anti-SB1070 and our costly self-destructive War on Drugs?
LOGICandREASON

If the Lulz and Wikileaks hackers are always left-leaning according to their actions, on should really wonder what their priorities and agenda are, and who is behind them.
Alice67

slickerwick said:
Rachel had a disapproving tone when reading the story.

No she didn’t. Quit projecting.
Alice67

slickerwick said:
They also hacked PBS. What do you have against PBS?

Nothing. Am I required to approve of everything Lulz does?
cjd ohio 1

slickerwick said:
Who are you cheering on? Rachel or Lulz? Rachel had a disapproving tone when reading the story. They also hacked PBS. What do you have against PBS? What kind of little libby are you? Or are you merely a nihilist at heart?

illegal activity is ok with liberals if it fits their political causes
slickerwick

Alice67 said:
Nothing. Am I required to approve of everything Lulz does?

Well, it sounds like you do since you want them to “kick ass.” Whose ass? You didn’t specify.

Alice67 said:
No she didn’t. Quit projecting.

Well, she wasn’t rooting for them like you are.
So I take it you’re a nihilist or anarchist at heart?
Maybe they’ll hack your workplace next. I would assume you’d have no problem with that.
slickerwick

cjd ohio 1 said:
illegal activity is ok with liberals if it fits their political causes

What’s weird is that they sound like a Merry Pranksters anarchist group so I’m trying to figure out Libby Alice’s mindset. Or I was for about a minute there. I don’t really care or expect a well-reasoned answer from her.
Alice67

slickerwick said:
Well, it sounds like you do since you want them to “kick ass.” Whose ass? You didn’t specify.

It sounds kick ass so far but I may change my mind as more is revealed.

slickerwick said:
Well, she wasn’t rooting for them like you are.

Not rooting for anyone … but I could change my mind and move it that direction too. There’s all sorts of possibilities and options. You keep projecting meaning and intent when you really haven’t a clue what kick ass meant.

slickerwick said:
So I take it you’re a nihilist or anarchist at heart?

I’m for exposure for the most part. Other than that quit trying to fit me in some mindset of your invention.

slickerwick said:
Maybe they’ll hack your workplace next. I would assume you’d have no problem with that.

Assume to your hearts content. But quit whining.
Alice67

slickerwick said:
What’s weird is that they sound like a Merry Pranksters anarchist group so I’m trying to figure out Libby Alice’s mindset. Or I was for about a minute there. I don’t really care or expect a well-reasoned answer from her.

Good. Now you’re happy. :)
Gasket

cjd ohio 1 said:
illegal activity is ok with liberals if it fits their political causes

Dude…I can’t believe you are swimming in this pool. That’s an idiotic statement to make.
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cjd ohio 1

Gasket said:
Dude…I can’t believe you are swimming in this pool. That’s an idiotic statement to make.

your are correct gasket, i am sorry, i meant that just for Alice67, i will try not to generalize like that again
Alice67

cjd ohio 1 said:
your are correct gasket, i am sorry, i meant that just for Alice67, i will try not to generalize like that again

lol
WCinWI

Alice67 said:
lol

This is truly an awesome day. You just approved of Breitbart! Woohoo!
Alice67

WCinWI said:
This is truly an awesome day. You just approved of Breitbart! Woohoo!

You’re delusional.
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Alice67 said:
You’re delusional.

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Dem4Ever

I wonder if Maddow is conflicted over LulzSec’s hacking or if she fully endorses their criminal activities.
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Good and bad. I do think the cops and the government way over reach and infringe on our rights. I do think the war on drugs is bogus and is rife with abuse. Too bad smart people feel the system is so broken they have to break the law to change things.

Things do need to change and the Government does have to stop spying on us.
news_junkie

Nice, Rachel. This is the same group responsible for tearing down Sony’s Playstation network and distributing names, passwords and credit card information.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/lulzsec-sony-again/

Funny the people you liberals like to align yourselves with.
Just4thefax

Fact: Liberals just love military leaks and hackers distroying networks. They are the educated ones!
THE REAL ROYAL KING

Since this is Arizona, I think the premise is wrong. The culprits have to be illegal aliens who stopped in the desert and built campfires to be able to see how to make their wireless connections. There is no other explanation.
Azarkhan

A-holes hacked into the Arizona government site and an a-hole reported it. What else is new?
carlinist

Remember, the internet is free.. really free. It is something the law enforcement shouldn’t get their nose into because that leads to censorship. It is also filled with hack groups that do damage. All we can do is protect our own and that’s about it. Never show your identity online.

BE anonymous

Also about hack groups and wikileaks. They are known to be anti government. Wikileaks has been known to have Chinese government leaks on their website and Anonymous had acted against countries that have censorship like Iran.
The thing i like about these hacktivist groups is that they are not like the Taliban, who are goalless and can easily be manipulated( by extremists). They will do what they will do. And sometimes their revelations are enlightening.

I do not support these groups, nor do I disapprove of these groups.
Azarkhan

carlinist said:
the Taliban, who are goalless and can easily be manipulated( by extremists).

Huh? Come clean, are you Eric Holder?
donalan

Azarkhan said:
A-holes hacked into the Arizona government site and an a-hole reported it. What else is new?

How eloquent…
Azarkhan

donalan said:
How eloquent…

Thanks, but I was going for succinct.
Alice67

news_junkie said:
Nice, Rachel. This is the same group responsible for tearing down Sony’s Playstation network and distributing names, passwords and credit card information.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/lulzsec-sony-again/

Funny the people you liberals like to align yourselves with.

So by reporting the story Rachel has aligned herself with this group? Does it work that way for all news and the anchors who report it?
carlinist

@Azarkhan yes the Taliban are goalless
The Taliban are native tribes living in the Afghanisthan, mostly along the Afghan-Pakistan border. Although they are extremly right wing, they wouldn’t have harmed US, if they hadn’t been sheltering Al Qaeda and having some of their tribes hijacked by Al Qaeda. This is why we target them. We used the Taliban to fight Soviet Union.

In the end its unnecessary foreign involvements that get us into trouble.

You see how tribal society is incompatible with current government systems in Yemen, where there is a revolution going on fueled by Tribal feuds.
carlinist

correction
*we used to help the Taliban to fight Soviet Union*
cjd ohio 1

Alice67 said:
So by reporting the story Rachel has aligned herself with this group? Does it work that way for all news and the anchors who report it?

she is not a news anchor
Azarkhan

carlinist said:
We used the Taliban to fight Soviet Union

The US couldn’t “use” the Taliban since they didn’t exist during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. The Taliban only came into existence after the Soviet withdrawal as a reaction to the constant warfare between the various Afghan factions.
Azarkhan

carlinist said:
The Taliban are native tribes

They are not tribes. Talib means “student” in Arabic. The Taliban came from the religious schools (madrasah’s) in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
carlinist

Azarkhan said:
They are not tribes. Talib means “student” in Arabic. The Taliban came from the religious schools (madrasah’s) in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

well right. and we supported teaching them at madrasahs in order to counter the liberalism the government there was promoting, and that liberalism was promoted by the Soviet Union. And now we pay the price for that, although not directly.

Although they seem like extremists that have a goal… they really don’t. Some of them have been used against India by Pakistan. Also they were a part of the Mujahadeen which was the precursor to the Taliban, Now, it is really too late to remove Taliban from power, because they have taken root. There is no way we can fight the Taliban head on, because now they are native to the land. If we let them live, keep a close watch on them(like we didn’t during Clinton years) and not help a proxy group like that in near future, we can beat them, because the Afghans will surely rebel with force.
Azarkhan

carlinist said:
we supported teaching them at madrasahs

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan supported them, not the US.

carlinist said:
that liberalism was promoted by the Soviet Union

When did totalitarian, atheistic communism morph into liberalism?

carlinist said:
Some of them have been used against India by Pakistan

Sure would like to have a reference for that one. Difficult to see how Islamic fundamentalists would be in the pay of a country and religion they despise, polytheistic India.
tatboy

THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
Since this is Arizona, I think the premise is wrong. The culprits have to be illegal aliens who stopped in the desert and built campfires to be able to see how to make their wireless connections. There is no other explanation.

Maybe they should hack into Obama’s private info. That would be informative… would it not?
carlinist

Azarkhan said:
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan supported them, not the US.

When did totalitarian, atheistic communism morph into liberalism?

Sure would like to have a reference for that one. Difficult to see how Islamic fundamentalists would be in the pay of a country and religion they despise, polytheistic India.

For the first part, Remember Charlie Wilson..

For second part, Afghanistan had a democratic rule that was allied with the USSR, just like India. This made Pakistan uncomfortable and this, along with protecting our oil interests in the Middle East was the reason we got involved in Afghanistan through CIA , which weaponized the Taliban. Although I may not be 100% sure about US training Taliban in Madrasahs I do know that US didn’t care about this since it wasn’t their # 1 priority at the time.

And for the third, Yes the Pakisthan has used the Pakistani taliban in its fight for Kashmir
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002/05/29/taliban-kashmir.htm

What US fails to understand is that in these areas religion and territorial warfare go hand in hand. We tend to lump all our middle eastern enemies together and call them terrorists. Not only do they have different names however, but they have different objectives. Some are just there to make money, while others are there to traffic weapons, and others are more ideological.

Iran is following our footsteps here and is paying the Taliban to kill Americans there, which I know will backfire on them when we leave Afghanisthan. That is due to the religious differences between the Shia and the Sunni Muslims. Yes such a small divide causes huge hoopla in the middle east. Iran-Iraq war for example..
carlinist

correctino
*some are just there to make money through drugs*
THE REAL ROYAL KING

tatboy said:
THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
Since this is Arizona, I think the premise is wrong. The culprits have to be illegal aliens who stopped in the desert and built campfires to be able to see how to make their wireless connections. There is no other explanation.
Maybe they should hack into Obama’s private info. That would be informative… would it not?

No. I think hacking ought to be vigorously prosecuted.
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LulzSec

LulzSec Here! Our Lulz Boat Is Gone From This World Called The Internet,
We Did That Because We Decided To Disband For All Our Site-Hacking,
Still, The lulz Continues And That Lulz Comes From Other Hackers And Hacking-Groups,

Sincerely,
LulzSec