Military and Government E-mails Compromised

Dangerous_Minds writes "ZeroPaid is reporting that 16,959 e-mail accounts were recently exposed by Connexion Hack Team. Included in the data dump are usernames and passwords for military and government accounts. The other compromised accounts included addresses from GMail, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL." Reader Stoobalou adds a report that NATO's servers have been hit for the second time in as many months.

Re:Going to throw stones?

[TheGratefulNet]

what's your agenda here, btw?

lets start with that. how odd you make a comparision when no sane person would. speaks volumes about you.

Re:Going to throw stones?

[Mordok-DestroyerOfWo]

The fact that you somehow got modded up horrifies me. There is a world of difference between the two scenarios, perhaps somebody will patiently explain them to you...maybe with bright colors and friendly animals!

Re:Going to throw stones?

[bsDaemon]

Well, government data is (nominally) public property and should be owned by and available to the public at large, with only certain exceptions, usually in a time of war. Fucking around the the voice mail account of a missing, underage girl who may or may not have been murdered, is a little bit different than that, don't you think? But hey, context, what's that?

Morons

[chill]

No, not the people who had their e-mail and passwords hacked, just most of the commenters here on Slashdot. Really, after all this time I should no longer be surprised.

Heads up, folks! The vast bulk of these e-mail addresses are from @yahoo.com, @gmail.com and the like.

These are PERSONAL e-mail addresses of possibly U.S. government personnel. They are prefaced with a couple dozen .gov and .mil addresses, but the rest are anybody's guess.