Friday, 16. November 2007
Topic: WEB - on November 16, 2007 at 12:14:00 PM CET
Tor embassy 'hacker' raided by Swedish Feds
A security researcher who revealed how the email accounts of embassies were exposed through the misuse of the Tor anonymiser network has been taken in for questioning by Swedish intelligence agencies.
Dan Egerstad used Tor to obtain the login credentials of about 1,000 email addresses, including at least 100 accounts belonging to foreign embassies, as well as those of large corporations and human rights organisations. Egerstad posted the login details of embassies belonging to Iran, India, Japan, and Russia, among others, in late August. The information, posted on derangedsecurity.com, has since been taken offline. Egerstad disclosed details of how he pulled off the hack in September.
theregister.co.uk smh.com.au Patrick Gray's interviews with Dan Egerstad and Sam Stover can be heard in his podcast from
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