Anonymous hacks Iranian government, steals 10,000 emails

[Emil]

The hacker group Anonymous has hacked into Iranian government servers, specifically targeting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The group managed to steal 10,365 email messages and post them on The Pirate Bay as a 63MB file. Anonymous members even sent emails from the compromised servers to media organizations to prove they were in control of them.

The emails were originally released quietly by Anonymous on May 30, 2011 but the file containing them required a password to open. Eventually, the emails were posted all over the Internet and the password was made public. A post containing a list of links to the file stated the following: "We were able to archive some interesting information from the Islamic Regime. We need your help in keeping the data alive and available online!"

The emails were taken after hackers accessed the Iranian Passport and Visa Office email center. The majority of the stolen e-mail archive thus contains approvals and rejections for visas and passports. Some are visa applications for an "oil meeting.... many from China," according to a source cited by The Epoch Times, who added "it was a big raid," and that the Iranian government has been trying to cover up the incident for the past few days. "I have been told that they have had the site opened and closed on and off for days now," he said. "They have been behaving erratically." 

An Anonymous member said the hack was aimed more to damage the image of Iran in "both cyber space and the real world. I don’t know why the Islamic regime keeps providing money to their cyber army while they can't secure their most important mail server."

Iranian government websites have been under a steady stream of attacks by Anonymous, which launched a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack after the Iranian elections and subsequent protests in 2009. The second anniversary of Iran's 2009 elections will be on June 12, 2011, and Anonymous plans to mark it with its signature DDoS attacks again.

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[Guest]

Keep it up Anonymous!

 

[example1013]

Guest said:
Keep it up Anonymous!

You have no clue what you're talking about.

 

[Guest]

These clowns need a new motto...im just sayin.

 

[Guest]

Is this a cyberwar, a hackers climax or what?

 

[TomSEA]

Oooooh....Iranian Passport and Visa e-mails. How exciting!

*****s.

And they have a LONG way to go before they can claim the ultimate smack-down like the Israeli's did getting Stuxnet into Iran's nuclear program computers, servers and network.

 

[Mindwraith]

you people are missing the point. their objective is to make the Islamic regime look fragile and defenseless, which they have done. it doesn't have anything to do with the content of the emails, its irrelevant.

 

[Trillionsin]

Mindwraith said:
you people are missing the point. their objective is to make the Islamic regime look fragile and defenseless, which they have done. it doesn't have anything to do with the content of the emails, its irrelevant.

So then this is kinda like the hacks on Sony? lulz

 

[Prosercunus]

Regardless of effectiveness or what you think about that Anon crap... anything that makes Iran look foolish is a positive.

 

[Guest]

The internet is not Fort Knox it's more like a giant piece of Swiss cheese with ya know like holes all in it.

 

[Guest]

It's amazing how quickly supposedly revolutionary groups can be co-opted to serve tptb,

 

[Greg S]

I think that if you have a decent sized bot-net of group of people willing to cooperate, you can easily hack into any server. Apache and Linux are the most common setups for webhosting, and neither are perfectly secure.

 

[gwailo247]

We should keep in mind this is a country which takes witchcraft as a serious problem...

 

[Guest]

...and Win7Dev has no idea what he's talking about.

 

[Guest]

Guest @ 2:11 sounds like a tool. unless u have a full understanding of the geo-political landscape than STFU.

 

[Guest]

Correction:

Guest @ 1:11 sounds like a tool. unless u have a full understanding of the geo-political landscape than STFU.

 

[Panda218]

I think the Guest that had to make a correction when insulting the other should STFU. We aren't on "techspot" to talk about politics

 

[Guest]

Panda218, not every article is just about technology here & how much politics is involved in these types of articles.

 

[Panda218]

True, but they all include technology and generally the tech talk outweighs the political talk. I will withdraw my STFU as it was uncalled for, but it was fun trolling for those few moments ^^

 

[oldikes]

If they keep this up, Anonymous is going to get people killed. this isn't a game, this is REALITY.

 

[Guest]

I agree with ikesmasher.
When hackers hit governments and big money interests, they will eventually retaliate.

 

[Guest]

Why can't Anonymous have hacked Osama Bin Laden's computer and expose him as a porn addict?

 

[stewi0001]

Guest said:
Why can't Anonymous have hacked Osama Bin Laden's computer and expose him as a porn addict?

Derr he was never directly online, remember the whole carriers with flashdrives? Then again they could have downloaded some for him but it would be kinda hard to track that.

as for this story, I dunno what to think of it...

 

[Guest]

Thanks Anonymous, any kind of help is much appreciated here. Can't wait till 12 June !!!

 

[Guest]

As a Persian,i have to say thank you anonymous hope to hear more from u