Hackers deface ethical hacking website with Snowdens passport

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More than 60,000 security professionals are thought to have obtained or applied for the EC-Council’s Certified Ethical Hacker certification, and could – if the hacker’s claims are true – have had their personal details exposed.

Quite how the hacker managed to deface the EC-Council website is currently unclear, although it is possible they achieved the attack by hijacking the site’s DNS entries to force them to point to a different server.

Certainly, whoever was behind the defacement appears to be blaming lax password security for the breach:

Defaced again? Yep, good job reusing your passwords morons jack67834#

owned by certified unethical software security professional
Obligatory link: http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/ec-council/
-Eugene Belford

P.S It seems like lots of you are missing the point here, I’m sitting on thousands of passports belonging to LE (and .mil) officials
 
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