Anonymous Attacks US State Department

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Identity Finder has analyzed a hack by the Anonymous hacker "Par:Anoia," claiming to have attacked a website belonging to the U.S. Department of State. Our preliminary analysis indicates that the hack appears to be legitimate, affecting roughly 200 people, and relatively low-risk.

Identity Finder's analysis indicates that the hack contains the following information:

-- 199 Email Addresses, most of which belonged to state.gov, and a few universities

-- About 207 Possible Hashed Passwords. The seemingly hashed strings were unidentified

-- Zero Home Addresses

-- 194 names

found @ http://www.darkreading.com/database-security/167901020/security/news/240149187/anonymous-attacks-us-state-department-careers-website-analysis

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