FBI's claim that it dismantled Anonymous met with a massive data leak

[MADem]

1. It wouldn't surprise me if the FBI said that on purpose, and some of this hacking was done by

their guys....I mean, this doesn't seem like an "end of the world/sky is falling" data breach:

(Actually that last one is almost certainly the old "take credit for the heck of it” trick. It might just fool some of the people, some of the time.)

Nonetheless, they do seem to have accessed FBI servers with recent data from the Regional Forensics Computer Laboratory (RFCL), and to have posted it as hidden PDF files and pages on the hacked site. The most recent data is from January of this year, although much is from last year. When asked on Twitter why that site, OpLastResort said there could be no better place to grill the Feds than the (apparently long-closed) Federal Grill. Because they are uploaded as PDFs rather than Web pages, they must be downloaded to be viewed, and one might hesitate before downloading hacked FBI files from Anonymous hosted on hacked websites.

If one were more cautious than a reporter, that is.

The documents include, for example, slides from a presentation in Orange County that includes the numbers of cases handled in the lab, the referring law enforcement agencies, resolutions, etc.

If there's a route TO the data, there's a route FROM it, too--particularly if you're on alert and looking for one.

I hate to use Porgie's "Smoke 'em outta their holes" line, but that's what it smells like to me....

Just sayin'.....