The loose hacker collective Anonymous says it has taken revenge on a US security company whose principal claimed to have penetrated the group and identified some of its key people.

They hacked the Twitter account of Aaron Barr, the chief executive of HBGary, and sent out a series of angry tweets while many Americans were watching the Super Bowl match on Sunday night, allegedly including Barr’s social security number and address, and his mobile phone number.

The tweets link to torrents of the company’s emails. Members of the group also put up a brutal set of claims: “Anonymous has:

“entire control of all emails for the company of hbgary.com. we have full admin control of

“hbgaryfederal.com. we have wordpress control of hbgary.com

“all emails will be put up in a torrent.

“full access to all their finincials

“their ssns [social security numbers]

“their w2s [US tax reporting statement]

“their 1099s [US tax identification certificate]

“their software products

“their malware data (although Anonymous rm’d [deleted] their entire terabyte of data sorry)

“their backup server was wiped.

“access to their pbx system via 8×8.com

“control of their support server and their clients logins

“root access to rootkit.com, personal website of greg hoglund

“aaron barr’s ipad is now wiped”

More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/07/anonymous-attacks-us-security-company-hbgary

Previously:

An international investigation into cyberactivists who attacked businesses hostile to WikiLeaks is likely to yield arrests of senior members of the group after they left clues to their real identities on Facebook and in other electronic communications, it is claimed
http://vrritti.com/2011/02/06/an-international-investigation-into-cyberactivists-who-attacked-businesses-hostile-to-wikileaks-is-likely-to-yield-arrests-of-senior-members-of-the-group-after-they-left-clues-to-their-real-identities/