Michael Kelley and Geoffrey Ingersoll report:
Anonymous hackers have released 14 gigabytes of information allegedly related to Bank of America and a web intelligence firm it hired to spy on hackers and social activists last year.
Emails detail how employees of TEKSystems actively watched hacker forums and social media sites for anyremotely relevant pieces of “intelligence.”
Read more on Business Insider.
Cyber War News has some additional details on the data dump here and here. There hasn’t been much mainstream media coverage of this data leak yet and BofA has not confirmed claims yet, nor responded to a claim in the press release that no hacking was involved:
The source of this release has confirmed that the data was not acquired by a hack but because it was stored on a misconfigured server and basically open for grabs.
Even more alarming, the data was retrieved from an Israeli server in Tel Aviv – neither the source nor we have any idea what the data was doing there in the first place.
Updated March 5: Tracy Kitten of BankInfoSecurity.com reports that it was allegedly ClearForest, a Thomson Reuters company, that had the leak from their server in Tel Aviv.