Anonymous Resumes Operations in Italy with New Massive Hack
The duo of Anonymous Italy and LulzSec Italy have hacked numerous job seeking portals and leaked some of their information online.
The hackers announced the leak Saturday, April 9, as part of a new operation called#NessunDorma, which translated from Italian means “Nobody Sleeps.”
Anonymous and LulzSec Italy want better working conditions
The two groups started the operation as a way to raise awareness against corporations activating in Italy. The first stage of the campaign was to raise awareness against the country’s complicated conditions for local and foreign workers.
The hacktivists are unsatisfied with Giuliano Poletti, Minister of Labour and Social Policies, and Matteo Renzi, Prime Minister of Italy, who are preparing new laws that benefit corporations more than Italy’s working force.
The hackers are demanding a minimum wage of €8 per hour and mandatory health insurance for Italy’s workers hired under a temporary contract.
Hackers “claim” to have leaked 1.8 million user records
Anonymous and LulzSec claim their data dump includes four million records, of which 1.8 is actual user data, all amassing 1.5 GB. They also claim to have half a million job seeker evaluations and 7,000 contact details for major companies activating in Italy. Some of the information belongs to Italian employment agencies, but some of it doesn’t.
The data has been published in six different archives hosted on file hosting service MEGA. When put together all six files only hold 300 MB of data.
Softpedia has not checked the data for each hacked website contained in all six packages, but the ones we did followed the same pattern, holding dumped data in HTML files, database info in TXT files, and optional screenshots of the admin panel in image format.
Web design agency at the center of the hack?
Researchers from Risk Based Security claim that all these websites are related to each other, being built by the same Web design agency called Engitel.
Data from Engitel is also included in the leak. Softpedia has reached out to the company in an attempt to confirm that the hack originated from their servers and we’ll be updating the article if and when we hear back.
Prior to this latest operation, Anonymous Italy launched DDoS attacks against various regional government Web portals because of Italy’s involvement in the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project.
Additionally, two weeks ago, a sixteen-year-old teenager from Udine was arrested for launching DDoS attacks as part of the Anonymous #OpSafePharma campaign.
