Posted on 07/16/2020 10:22:56 AM PDT by grey_whiskers
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For example, the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center has 29,114 accounts, and each one includes a full name; rank; police department or agency; email address; home address,; cellphone number; supervisor’s name, rank, and email address; the IP address used to create the account; and a password hash — a cryptographic representation of the user’s password (hashed with 1,000 iterations of PBKDF2 and a 24-byte salt, if you’re that kind of nerd). If a user’s password is weak, hackers with access to its hash could crack it to recover the original password, potentially leading to a giant list of all the weak passwords used by U.S. law enforcement.
(Excerpt) Read more at theintercept.com ...
Where is FBI director Wray (besides never-Trumping?)
Has anyone brought this to the attention of the NSA or President Trump?
Pretty easy to stop this crap.
Its a proven fact that sometimes the old ways are the best ways.
Yet on the people of this country go! New Cell phones where they can track you and grab your personal information and all that.
Oh...another case just hit the news... deepstate is trying to revive Russiagate by leaking claims that COZY BEAR is back
Home address? That’s really scary. I hope they find who did this and quickly. I doubt this will be the last group of officers targeted like this.
700,000 that is most of the US LEO population not much left to hack
Back to Hacking , so were all the Hackers out with the Flu ?
Boy aren’t you happy all our medical records etc etc etc are on the web?-)
How would they break into a PBKDF2 with a 24-byte salt password?
Looks like a result of putting a couple of generations of illegitimate, drugged criminals through college.
Where is Attorney General Bill Barr? He’s in conference with the Keebler Elf or else its snack time or maybe nap time or both
Read somewhere that Russia has already gone back to "old ways". They don't have important info on line.
Calling it hacked is the cover story. It was a deliberate release to benefit Antifa and the Demunist effort to replace law enforcement with Obama’s brown shirts.
I sometimes wonder why everything has to be connected to the Internet. You can’t get much more secure than a “high-resistance air connection.”
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