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Expo 2015 – Anonymous Italy claims to have stolen 1TB data from Best Union

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Dissent

Pierluigi Paganini reports:

Anonymous Italy continues to target the Expo 2015 Universal Exposition being hosted in Milan with a series of attacks under the Operation Italy (#OpItaly). The collective of hackers it targeting systems of the organization and the companies that are working for the event. The last victim in order of time is the Best Union, a company that manages the online service for the sale of the tickets.

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The last attack against the service provided by the Best Union allowed the member of Anonymous Italy to steal data from the database of the server used by the company. According to the tweets sent by members of the group, the database dump contains “1 Terabyte of leaks” belonging to people that acquired the ticket online. It seems that the passwords were stored in clear text.

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