Security News > 2009 > August > Hackers break into police computer as sting backfires
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/hackers-break-into-police-computer-as-sting-backfires-20090818-eohc.html By Asher Moses smh.com.au August 18, 2009 Exclusive: An Australian Federal Police boast, on the ABC's Four Corners program, about officers breaking up an underground hacker forum, has backfired after hackers broke into a federal police computer system. Security consultants say police appear to have been using the computer as a honeypot to collect information on members of the forum but the scheme came undone after the officers forgot to set a password. Last Wednesday, federal police officers in co-operation with Victoria Police executed a search warrant on premises in Brighton, Melbourne, connected to the administrator of an underground hacking forum, r00t-y0u.org, which had about 5000 members. Many details of the investigation were revealed for the first time on Four Corners last night. [...] ________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.org