2011 UN Hackers Claim to Have Struck Again
Government (International)
A hacktivist group that lost a member to a drone strike in August 2015 is back at it. TeaMp0isoN says it has defaced, hacked and dumped data from a United Nations World Tourism Organization online forum
Junaid Hussain (TriCk), a British hacker, ISIS recruiter and former TeaMp0isoN member, was killed by a U.S. drone missile outside of the Syrian city of Raqqa.
The dump contains 1524 records with forum member usernames, email addresses, and MD5-hashed passwords.
In response to an inquiry from DataBreaches.net as to why and how the hacktivists had targeted the site, TeaMp0isoN member “Jimmy” responded,
We owned the UN back in ’11
only seemed right to fuck with them again.
The forum was compromised by an SQL injection, a hacking technique in which an attacker types malicious commands into a website's user text box, tricking the system into returning other data.
Previous coverage of TeaMp0isoN’s 2011 attack on the U.N. can be found here.