On February 6, 2011, as part of their attack on HBGary, the Anonymous group social engineered administrator of rootkit.com, Jussi Jaakonaho, to gain root access to rootkit.com. The entire MySQL database backup was then released by Anonymous and announced using HBGary's CEO Twitter account,
@aaronbarr : Sup, here's rootkit.com MySQL Backup http://stfu.cc/rootkit_com_mysqlbackup_02_06_11.gz #hbgary #rootkit #anonymous.
The table pic shown is the list of accounts found in rootkit.com MySQL database backup with passwords in cleartext.
@aaronbarr : Sup, here's rootkit.com MySQL Backup http://stfu.cc/rootkit_com_mysqlbackup_02_06_11.gz #hbgary #rootkit #anonymous.
The table pic shown is the list of accounts found in rootkit.com MySQL database backup with passwords in cleartext.
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