The official website of the Coalition of Law Enforcement and Retail (clearusa.org) has been shut down after hackers supporting the AntiSec movement managed to obtain access to thousands of account details, leaking them all online.
A hacker called Exphin1ty is responsible for this latest operation against a government institution. He states that this is a form of retaliation against the “American law enforcement's inhumane treatments of occupiers.”
“Due to this and several other reasons we are releasing the entire member database of clearusa.org (The Coalition of Law Enforcement and Retail). An organization who works to ‘encourage mutual cooperation between all law enforcement agencies and retail corporations,’” reads a statement posted in a Pastebin document.
ID numbers, the dates when accounts were created, names, titles, agency names, addresses, cities, states, zip codes, email addresses, phone numbers and hashed passwords were posted online by the hacker.
Exphin1ty claims that military and law enforcement personnel, federal agents, security companies and even large corporations such as Microsoft may be affected by the breach.
“Many of the users reuse their passwords elsewhere, so we encourage all of our lulz loving friends to deface & leak their twitters, facebooks and private email accounts as well as spreading their d0xes far and wide across the internet ocean,” he adds.
The CLEAR USA website is now displaying a message that states the “account has been suspended” which means that its owners are working on fixing the security issues that left it vulnerable.
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