Anonymous Attacks Monsanto, Steals Employee Data

July 18, 2011

The hacking group Anonymous has struck again, this time releasing documents it said it stole from the network of giant biotechnology and agricultural seed company Monsanto in retribution for alleged corporate misconduct.

The hacking collective posted information it stole last month on 2,500 Monsanto employees and associates, the group announced. Anonymous also launched a distributed denial-of-service attack on Monsanto’s international Websites, forcing the company to shut down the sites for approximately three days.

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Hackers were in German police computers for months

July 18, 2011

The federal agency for cybernet security in Dusseldorf saying that federal police computers came under attack by hackers in September 2010. But the attack, using so-called trojans or programs which allow data to be read from outside, was only discovered months later, in early 2011, the Bild am Sonntag report said.

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