Hackers release data on ex-Treasury Secretary Rubin

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Hackers supportive of the Occupy Wall Street protests today released personal information of former Citigroup and Goldman Sachs executive Robert Rubin who was U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Clinton when the banking reform Glass-Steagall Act was repealed.

The CabinCr3w, hackers aligned with the Anonymous group of online activists and the protests, have been releasing personal data of the CEOs of Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and other bankers. They also released information on a New York police officer accused of unprovoked and excessive use of pepper spray on people at the protests, which began September 17 in New York and have spread globally.

The release of information on the StickyPaste.com Web site features data on Rubin and his family, including addresses, property information, professional activities and organizations, political contributions and court cases.

Rubin, who also was an executive at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Citigroup, is a founder of The Hamilton Project, an economic think tank, and co-chair of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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[waltky]

Federal Reserve hacked...

Federal Reserve's Internal Site Hacked
February 07, 2013 WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve said on Tuesday that one of its internal websites had been briefly breached by hackers, though no critical functions of the U.S. central bank were affected by the intrusion.

The admission, which raises questions about cyber security at the Fed, follows a claim that hackers linked to the activist group Anonymous had struck the Fed on Sunday, accessing personal information of more than 4,000 U.S. bank executives, which it published on the Web. "The Federal Reserve system is aware that information was obtained by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor product,'' a Fed spokeswoman said. "Exposure was fixed shortly after discovery and is no longer an issue. This incident did not affect critical operations of the Federal Reserve system," the spokeswoman said, adding that all individuals effected by the breach had been contacted.

Technology news site ZDNet separately reported that Anonymous appeared to have published information allegedly containing the login information, credentials, internet protocol addresses and contact information of over 4,000 U.S. bankers on Sunday night. The claim was made via Twitter over an account registered to OpLastResort, which is linked to Anonymous, a loosely organized group of hacker activists who have claimed responsibility for scores of attacks on government and corporate sites over the past several years.

OpLastResort is a campaign that some hackers linked to Anonymous have started to protest government prosecution of computer prodigy Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide on Jan. 11. The Fed declined to identify which website had been hacked. But information that it provided to bankers indicated that the site, which was not public, was a contact database for banks to use during a natural disaster. The website's purpose is to allow bank executives to update the Fed if their operations have been flooded or otherwise damaged in a storm or other disaster. That helps the Fed to assess the overall impact of the event on the banking system.

Hackers identifying themselves as Anonymous infiltrated the U.S. Sentencing Commission website late last month to protest the government's treatment of the Swartz case. Swartz was charged with using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's computer networks to steal more than 4 million articles from JSTOR, an online archive and journal distribution service. He faced a maximum sentence of 31 years if convicted.

Federal Reserve's Internal Site Hacked

 

[MarcATL]

I like these anonymous guys.