Hacktivists have posted "secret documents" stolen from an Italian cybercrime unit. The documents – 8GB of files – were extracted from a system maintained by the Centro Nazionale Anticrimine Informatico per la Protezione delle Infrastrutture Critiche (CNAIPIC), the organisation charged with guarding the country's critical IT …

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Monday 25th July 2011 15:24 GMT h4rm0ny

Is this actually hacking, or is this a leak?

The headline says "hack" but the article says they were sent documents...

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1. Monday 25th July 2011 20:35 GMT Scorchio!!
  
  Re: Is this actually hacking, or is this a leak?
  
  Sent in by a hack journo, formerly working for the NoTW.
  
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Monday 25th July 2011 15:34 GMT BillG

Dumb Dumber Dumbest

This was a dumb thing for Anonymous to do. I've worked in Italy. Historically, their government is known for "broadly" interpreting the law in their favor, including search warrants.

Expect Italy to passionately step up their search for Anonymous members. Expect the people at CNAIPIC to make Anonymous their top priority.

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1. Monday 25th July 2011 20:29 GMT h4rm0ny
  
  It's Anonymous
  
  It might have been a dumb thing for *someone* to do, but it only takes one person to do it and say "Anonymous" - who knows? That said, *if* the disclosed information is in the public interest, then maybe it's a brave thing to do, rather than dumb.
  
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2. Monday 25th July 2011 20:35 GMT Richard Boyce
  
  Re: Dumb Dumber Dumbest
  
  They've got to find the leak first. It sounds like Anonymous were simply used. There could be false or misleading info mixed in with real data too.
  
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Monday 25th July 2011 15:43 GMT Craig 12

Fight Club

Can't these guys hack Visa and Amex? No need to steal the info, just delete it plskthx

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1. Tuesday 26th July 2011 09:44 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  NT kernel code
  
  Add NT kernel code. "And nothing of value was lost"
  
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Monday 25th July 2011 16:14 GMT Anonymous Coward

Lulz?

I smell the party van on its way quite soon

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Monday 25th July 2011 20:35 GMT Fred Flintstone

Errm, but ..

.. am I the only one to question why this data was placed on publicly accessible servers? Or are they really so capable that they can hit a DMZ with cert protected VPNs?

Weird.

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Monday 25th July 2011 20:37 GMT DavCrav

Walled garden Internet one step closer

Every hack against national governments' infrastructure, we take another step towards a fully locked-down Internet.

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1. Monday 25th July 2011 23:57 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  qwerty
  
  If the governments to that it would just be further evidence that they don't really have the peoples' interests in mind. No one wants the government to regulate the internet, so if they truly represent the people, they won't.
  
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Monday 25th July 2011 20:38 GMT Anonymous Coward

Maybe Anonymous is looking for...

...a Sicilian "necktie" ?

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Tuesday 26th July 2011 07:36 GMT Anonymous Coward

Centro Nazionale Anticrimine Informatico per la Protezione delle Infrastrutture Critiche

Wow, what a title.

Perhaps that is also their ecryption key?

CentroNazionaleAnticrimineInformaticoperlaProtezionedelleInfrastruttureCritiche

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1. Tuesday 26th July 2011 22:08 GMT Sean Baggaley 1
  
  You know how US institutions love abbreviations...
  
  ... like "CapCom", "PATRIOT Act" and so on? The Italians were doing it first.
  
  The Italians make abbreviations and acronyms out of *everything*. Nobody uses the full name; in some cases, many don't even realise a name *is* an acronym or abbreviation. ("Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino", anyone?)
  
  Government and other institutions often take a similar approach, so an ex-pat moving to Italy has to navigate and decipher an alphabet soup of initialisms, acronyms and the like, just to get by.
  
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