He's gonna be somebody's girlfriend when he gets to jail. Too bad (for him) he's gonna have to get passed around all the cell blocks like a gutter slut to learn his lesson. Future right winger.
Posted on 07/05/2005 8:27:56 AM PDT by mnehring
In January 2005, Jeremy Hammond and the hacker group collectively known as the "Internet Liberation Front" gained illegal access to the ProtestWarrior server. Thousands of customer credit card numbers were then stolen for the purpose of making millions of dollars in donations to various leftwing organizations. In early February, ProtestWarrior discovered the illegal breach and the identity of the criminals responsible.
Using the hacker recruiting ground www.hackthissite.org, Jeremy Hammond put together and led a team of politically motivated "hacktivists" to probe the ProtestWarrior server for months until an exploit was found. When an obscure vulnerability was discovered in the PW server's newsletter subscription code, they managed to upload malicious files that gave them the ability to execute commands on the server.
Upon discovering the hack, we immediately began collecting information on the breach and managed to penetrate Jeremy's inner circle. We then collected evidence that more than 5,000 credit card numbers had been stolen by Jeremy and the "Internet Liberation Front" and that they were planning on doing the following:
*charge hundreds of dollars per stolen credit card number as donations to various left-wing organizations by using an automated donation submission script
*send the entire ProtestWarrior HQ database (complete with usernames, passwords, and operation details) to left-wing groups hostile to ProtestWarrior (including the entire contents of our mail server)
*upload all credit card numbers and other sensitive customer information to hundreds of anarchist and left-wing sites (specifically Indymedia) as a downloadable zip file
*anonymously send press releases and material to thousands of media contacts to boast of the malicious hack and the millions of dollars defrauded, and to publish any and all sensitive information regarding the ProtestWarrior organization
*erase the entire PW server
*launch simultaneous attacks on other conservative sites
Upon discovering their plans, we contacted the FBI and the Secret Service, who immediately began investigating the case. We were able to provide them with a tremendous amount of evidence regarding the breach, the criminals responsible, and their plans to commit massive credit card fraud. We also reported the incident to all credit card companies involved to make sure that ProtestWarrior's customers were protected. With our help, the FBI was able to thwart Jeremy and his army of "hacktivists".
After contacting the FBI, we immediately hired a security consultant and removed all sensitive information from the server. We eventually moved the server to a new box, where we blocked off the system and data files from the web server and changed the online store software to a super- secure system that stores zero sensitive customer information. In addition, we hired an internet security firm to run a series of vigorous vulnerability tests on our server, which our server all passed.
The reason we haven't made this announcement earlier is that our customers were already protected and we didn't want to jeopardize the ongoing FBI investigation of Jeremy and his "hacktivist" army.
The reason we're posting this now is that Jeremy, in a desperate move, is publicly appealing to the internet community regarding his pending FBI investigation. Using his site www.freejeremy. com, he is trying to solicit donations for his defense fund and generate public sympathy while spreading slanderous disinformation regarding ProtestWarrior and the events leading up to the FBI investigation.
We will soon be releasing much more information and details regarding the incident and the ongoing FBI investigation. Rest assured, justice will be served.
-Kfir and Alan www.protestwarrior.com
You can sodomize the revolutionary, but you can't sodomize the revolution. You can, however, trade the revolutionary for a pack of smokes to be sodomized again...
In G. Gordon Liddy's book "Will", the G Man recounts a tale of a cub reporter who managed to get placed in the same cell block as Liddy, with the intention of gaining a scoop. It goes on to describe the "attention" the reporter received from others in the block.
I hope that this little pissant ends up the same way.
I like it. It's got a good beat, and you can dance to it.
"They can kill the revolutionary but they cannot kill the revolution."
Here's a little message for Jeremy (aka Sally as he will soon be known in the slammer). Your "revolution" is DEAD. It has been dead since the sixties. Your side has no ideas, but obstruction and tax hikes. You are as pathetic as your are deluded. Have fun inside and watch the soap, it's slippery!
That is all.
I do dispise hackers. I have had servers hacked more than once and it just drives you nuts! If he is guilty, I hope the bring him down hard.
Off topic, but I just came back from a quick trip to Asheville, NC for a wedding. I never realized how wacko that town is with every type of weirdo possible! I should start an Asheville NC thread...
I would suspect not a direct connection -- why? Peanut change. AQ needs big money in "direct action". Credit Card theft done overseas? Takes longer to not only track; but to notice. Could credit card funds be used to buy supplies for terrorists? Food, transportation? Would that qualify? How about funds used to fund specific, "direct action" anti-American protests, activities, speakers?
Huntsville.
You mean like this? :) Huntsville
... and he's too young to slip under the "age" SCOTUS recent ruling on juveniles.
Make that: too OLD.
It just takes regular cruises around the internet lefty sites for one to understand: Crime is irrelevant when there's a sniff of rumored, innuendo'd REPUBLICAN CONSPIRACY afoot.
You see, lil Jeremy was simply wandering down the little cyber road one day when some evil Republicans began pelting him, and yelling: Stop Picking My Apples! His supporters reading this: said OOooh. Evil, evil Republicans.
>>removed all sensitive information from the server. We eventually moved the server to a new box, where we blocked off the system and data files from the web server and changed the online store software to a super- secure system that stores zero sensitive customer information<<
Forgive me for throwing salt in an open wound, but why the hell didn't you do this in the first place? I've built small time networks for my home and office, and even though I don't host a web site through the network, if I did, the first thing I would do is have a different web host box (server) than anything else. Hell, I have a gateway/router/firewall box on each of the networks, and there's nothing that runs on those machine except that. File servers are in other boxes -- one of which I seem to be having a power supply problem at the moment.
He looks pretty gay already. He may enjoy his prison experience.
Lol, I just finished reading what was on there and I hurt from laughing so much.
3. Federal Bureau of Investigation - Field Divisions ... Dirksen Federal Office Building. 219 South Dearborn Street. Chicago, Illinois 60604-1702 ... www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/focities.htm [Found on Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves]
Judge's Hearing Locations 219 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Il. 60604. 17031. 619. Doyle. Cook. 219 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Il. 60604 ... www.ilnb.uscourts.gov/cmEcf/pdfs/judge_hearing_loc... [Found on Google]
14. General Contact 219 South Dearborn Street Suite 2788F Chicago, Illinois 60604 312-435-5850. US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Office of the Clerk ... www.cookcountyclerkofcourt.org/General_Info/Genera... [Found on Google]
32. Nine Indicted in Chicago in $1 Million "Fastlane" Software Piracy... District of Illinois Scott R. Lassar United States Attorney Dirksen Federal Building 219 South Dearborn Street, Fifth Floor Chicago... www.cybercrime.gov/fastlane.htm [Found on Ask Jeeves]
61. Software Pirate Guilty of Copyright Infringement Under NET Act (May 15, 2001) For Immediate Release. Press Release. May 15, 2001. U.S. Department of Justice. United States Attorney. Northern District of Illinois. SOFTWARE PIRATE GUILTY OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT UNDER... www.cybercrime.gov/pwa_verdict.htm [Found on Yahoo!]
Weird and wild stuff.
Either he put in a fake address or that is simply where his trust is held....though I thought legal funds were in banks?
NCers know this. Flagstaff, AZ is also very, uh, tribal looking.
Usually they are in banks. Perhaps no bank wished to play host to a credit card hacker's defense? In doing the search on the addy -- also came up something called "FREE KEVIN!" another legal defense? Too weird for me.
On the west coast, the group generally behind the scenes in getting "lefties" out of tight spots: Lefty Lawyers Collective
Oh dear, one of the links at their site even has a Republican National Convention 2004 Demonstrations link.
But when I did a search on "midnightspecial" "219 Dearborn" I got this: DU: HOT!! Florida U.S. House Rep. says he has evidence of hacked voting.
Must be messing up my parameters....
Off topic: PC Power & Cooling
Swear by 'em.
Perhaps we can have part of his pushishment be to turn over all those websites TO the military.
It would be swee to have militaryoffcampus suddenly owned by goarmy.
Agreed, I just upped my PS to a 650 Watt dual fan.
Crashes are a killer.
Cheers,
knews hound
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