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UK’s biggest private security company G4S Hacked, Data Leaked by @le4ky

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Lee J

ex ugnazi member @le4ky has announced an attack on a well known large scale private security company. The company g4s is one of UK’s top security companies with it recently getting a 100million dollar contract with the government. The leak has been uploaded to the leakster.net website and contains a fair bit of information related to the server of www.g4s.com The atacked site was a subdomain and the leaked data also contains just over 280 accounts with unsalted md5 passwords. The attack has also got attention from wikileaks with this security contractor having ties to the whole assange saga.

WikiLeaks ‏@wikileaks Assange tagging security contractor G4S hacked by Anonymoushttps://pastebin.com/1ZrBYti5 https://freeanons.org/https://wlfriends.org/ #auspol

So this is yet another for private security company’s who work with our governments around the world. https://ozdc.net/archives.php?aid=2435 https://leakster.net/leaks/g4s


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