Leaked conversation between FBI and Met Police regarding hacking groups in the UK – January 17, 2012

Posted on February 3, 2012 | Leave a comment

‘Anonymous’ hackers intercept conversation between FBI and Scotland Yard on how to deal with hackers

February 3, 2012

The hacker apparently managed to access the call after getting into an FBI agent’s email which gave details of the call. The email was also posted online. The conversation concerned a young member of another hacking collective who was cooperating with the police in Britain.  The attack on the FBI was initially announced with a text post on the website Pastebin. A link to an MP3 recording of the conference call was later put up and publicised on numerous Twitter accounts. The email referred to an investigation on both sides of the Atlantic into a number of hacking groups. It read: “A conference call is planned for next Tuesday (January 17, 2012) to discuss the on-going investigations related to Anonymous, Lulzsec, Antisec, and other associated splinter groups.”

The call referred to a 15-year-old listed as a member of DSLSec – a copy-cat group of hackers that claims to have links with Anonymous and LulzSec. Agents called him “another juvenile wannabe type” that began cooperating after “a clip round the ear” from his parents, with one officer referring to him as an “idiot.” One anonymous member tweeted: “Man you’re f*****g dumb. It’s a conversation discussing anonymous/lulzsec and your wanna-be ass. your UK agent calls you an idiot.” The young man, who is not being named by the Daily Telegraph for legal reasons, has sent out a number of tweets responding to the posting saying: “lol [laughs out loud] I’m UK not USA, no FBI can touch me. Idiot…why wud FBI talk about me? I’m not even US & haven’t been arrested. I’m still here ain’t I? lol…I haven’t heard it yet…& I haven’t got a UK agent lol.” The FBI confirmed hackers had intercepted a confidential phone call, and said it was hunting those responsible.

Anonymous ‘intercept FBI and Scotland Yard phone call’

February 3, 2011

Hacking network Anonymous has released a recording of a conference call between the FBI and UK police in which they discuss efforts against hacking. The conversation covers the tracking of Anonymous and other splinter groups, dates of planned arrests and details of evidence held by police. Anonymous also published an email, apparently from the FBI, giving the email addresses of call participants. The FBI confirmed the leak and said it was hunting those responsible. It said the information “was intended for law enforcement officers only and was illegally obtained,” the Associated Press news agency reports.

British police at Scotland Yard said they were working on a statement. According to the alleged email, the 17-minute phone call took place on 17 January. It was unclear how Anonymous had managed to obtain the recording. The email was sent to law enforcement officials in the US, UK, Sweden, Ireland and other countries, inviting them to “discuss the on-going investigations related to Anonymous, Lulzsec, Antisec, and other associated splinter groups”.  In the call, British and American voices said to be police and FBI agents discuss the names of some of the people they were tracking and plans for legal action.  Usernames are included but some of the real names of people being investigated appear to have been bleeped out.

Among those discussed are two British men, Ryan Cleary and Jake Davis, who are wanted in the US for their alleged connections to Anonymous. One of the British voices on the recording also says UK police have made mistakes in previous investigations. A comment on one of the Twitter accounts linked to Anonymous, AnonymousIRC, said: “The FBI might be curious how we’re able to continuously read their internal comms for some time now.” Anonymous is a loose collective of hackers, anarchists and pranksters who have targeted a range of governments, companies, law enforcement agencies and individuals in recent years.

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