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posted by martyb on Thursday February 02 2017, @01:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the go-fish[er] dept.

Spanish police have arrested three people they linked to the hacking of Gamma Group and Hacking Team:

Spanish police have arrested three people over a data breach linked to a series of dramatic intrusions at European spy software companies — feeding speculation that the net has closed on an online Robin Hood figure known as Phineas Fisher.

A spokesman with Mossos d'Esquadra, Catalonia's regional police, said a man was arrested Tuesday in Salamanca on suspicion of breaking into the website of the Mossos labor union, hijacking its Twitter feed and leaking the personal data of more than 5,500 officers in May of last year. Another man and a woman were arrested in Barcelona in connection to the same breach, he said. No more arrests are expected, he added, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with force policy.

May's breach was claimed by Phineas Fisher, who first won notoriety in 2014 for publishing data from Britain's Gamma Group — responsible at the time for spyware known as FinFisher. The hacker cemented their reputation by claiming responsibility for a breach at Italy's Hacking Team in 2015 — a spectacular dump which exposed the inner workings of government espionage campaigns — and appearing as a hand puppet in an unusual interview for a 2016 documentary on cybermercenaries .

Also at Motherboard and The Hill.

Previously: Gamma FinFisher Hacked - 40 GB of Code and Docs Available
WikiLeaks Releases German Surveillance Malware
Italian Security Firm "Hacking Team" Has Been Compromised
Hacking Team Complains That its Leaked Zero-Days Will be Misused
Hacking Team Break-in Explained


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @04:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @04:27AM (#461882)

    The people they hacked should be the ones in jail or we go by the law of the internet and nobody gets in trouble. Considering none of this is real, just bits inside metal and plastic...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @08:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @08:15AM (#461926)

    Completely agree with your first sentence, your second however could not be farther from truth.