WikiLeaks Posts Library Of Leaked Italian Hackers' Emails

REVEALED: Bayelsa State Govt under Gov Seriake Dickson during Jonathan administration patronized Hacking Team

WikiLeaks has published a searchable library of the massive email trove stolen from Italian surveillance company Hacking Team, ensuring more exposure for the spyware vendor's secretive clients.

WikiLeaks says it has published more than 1 million searchable messages, adding to the transparency website's already considerable haul of leaked and hacked documents.

Associated Press report continues:

Thursday's announcement came as Italian legislators were told that officials are investigating the spectacular breach at the Milan-based company to see whether it has placed Italy's national security at risk, according to one of the lawmakers present.

He spoke on condition of anonymity because the committee isn't supposed to speak publicly about the closed-door session.

Meanwhile Hacking Team spokesman Eric Rabe says the firm has lost none of its clients.

The investigative news publication, PREMIUM TIMES, in a report yesterday revealed that the Bayelsa state government paid close to One Hundred Million Naira to Hacking Team, to hack computers and phones in Nigeria, new information emerging from the firm’s leaked internal data has shown. 

 The publication also reported that Hacking Team, notorious for equipping governments with tools to hack citizens’ computers and phones, was itself hacked Sunday night and 415 gigabyte of internal data leaked to the public.

The publication then disclosed researchers have been pouring through the leaked documents since it was first leaked Sunday night, throwing up many shocking details of the firm’s secret dealings with Bayelsa state and other repressive governments, including Sudan, Russia, and Bahrain.

Documents reportedly seen by PREMIUM TIMES show that the Bayelsa government, a small state in Nigeria’s oil rich Niger Delta, paid Hacking Team N98 million to carry out internet attacks, in what appears to be the most ambitious hacking project by a Nigerian state government.