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Hacking Team claims terrorists can now use its tools

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Hacking Team has warned that a devastating data breach it suffered will allow its spying tools to be used by criminals and terrorists.

The Milan-based security company, which develops surveillance tools for mostly government clients, saw more than 400GB of internal data released on Sunday, including emails, clients lists, financial information and source code.

“Terrorists, extortionists and others can deploy this technology at will if they have the technical ability to do so,” wrote Hacking Team spokesman Eric Rabe in a news release on Wednesday. “We believe this is an extremely dangerous situation.”

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MacRumors hacker who took 860,000 passwords speaks: “We’re not terrorists”

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“We’re not logging in to your gmails, apple accounts … For instance, counter to Lol’s claims, there’s no way right now to be sure the hack wasn’t executed by exploiting a VBulletin vulnerability. And of course, MacRumors account holders …
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Gmail is the preferred email service of terrorists, claims former NSA chief

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You can learn all sorts of moral lessons if you attend church, but the person behind the pulpit doesn’t usually preach about Gmail-loving terrorists. Yet former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden did exactly that at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. The Washington Post reported that Hayden stood on the pulpit and claimed:
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NSA deletes surveillance fact sheet as officials claim leaks help terrorists

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After PRISM backlash, the NSA posted a four-page fact sheet about Section 702 of Foreign Intelligence Survelliance Act (FISA) on the NSA site, describing how US citizens’ communications are protected from NSA spying.
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