Law LAPD hacked - The hacker known as 4chan struck again

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PRIVACY AND SECURITY
Hacker Claims to Be in Possession of Personal Info on Up to 20,000 LAPD Applicants

Tom McKay
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The Los Angeles Police Department has warned that a hacker is claiming to be in possession of the personal information of roughly 2,500 “officers, trainees, and recruits,” as well as 17,500 other LAPD applicants, NBC Los Angeles reported on Monday.
According to NBC Los Angeles, the city’s Information Technology Agency said an unknown individual who said they were in possession of the data and claimed to be a hacker had contacted them last week, providing examples to evidence their claims. An email to officers notified them that “some of your information contained within the Personnel Department’s Candidate Applicant Program” may have been compromised, according to the station:

The compromised data included the officers’ names, dates of birth, parts of their social security numbers, and the email addresses and passwords they set up when applying for the job, according to the message. Additional personal information may have been compromised.
The LAPD told officers in the message they should monitor their personal financial accounts, get copies of their credit reports, and file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission.

Officials do not currently believe home addresses, phone numbers, and full social security numbers were lost to the hacker, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The individual who contacted ITA claimed to have received the data “from external sources,” ITA General Manager Ted Ross told NBC Los Angeles, which doesn’t really clear up much about the breach. The Times reported that the affected server did not in fact belong to the LAPD, but the city’s personnel department.
An LAPD spokesman told NBC Los Angeles that “Data security is paramount at the Los Angeles Police Department, and we are committed to protecting the privacy of anyone who is associated with our agency.”
According to the Times, officials believe the breach happened on July 25 and affected individuals who applied to be a police officer from 2010 to 2018 or 2019. Ross told the paper that the targeted database had recently been superseded in service by an upgraded one with better security, but that the old database was never cleared of data. Ross added that this was the first successful cyber attack on the Los Angeles government in recent memory, and that “We’ve made a lot of improvements and will continue to make them.”

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Makes me wonder how lax and shitty their security is considering most hackers are just script kiddies who duct taped their shit together.

 

[NyQuilninja]

I’m sure nothing bad could come of this

The sane and responsible people of Los Angeles have always loved and adored the police

 

[Anonymous For This]

You couldn't pay me enough to be an LAPD cop. Having to live with the constant legacy of the 90s race riots, putting up with crackheads and homeless on a daily basis, having a community that hates you, a city government that's suspicious of your very existence, and an IT department that couldn't even keep your private info safe.

Fuck. That.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

I’m sure nothing bad could come of this
https://youtube.com/watch?v=18A-FAipK8kThe sane and responsible people of Los Angeles have always loved and adored the police

Now that you've mentioned this, it makes me wonder if the purpose of the hack was to retrieve criminal case documents or if it was "grab whatever's on the shelf and book it!"

 

[Cedric_Eff]

What’s next? Someone from antifa uses this info and murders someone?

 

[Orkeosaurus]

After the equifax breach he probably would have done more damage just by posting "fuck niggers" to their twitter.

 

[MG 620]

What tranny is it this time?

 

[Wraith]

But there's laws against this? ... Maybe we should pass more laws. That'll stop 'em from doing it again!

 

[pwnest injun]

Now that you've mentioned this, it makes me wonder if the purpose of the hack was to retrieve criminal case documents or if it was "grab whatever's on the shelf and book it!"

It was to make the police feel threatened. Otherwise, they would not have gone to the media to announce it.

 

[Carnavoyeur]

The LAPD is on Scientology's payroll so this will be swept under the rug and forgotten about immediately.

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

Man, this summer is getting pretty active. First Capital One then the fucking LAPD lol. I wonder if someone else is going to get H@X0[\3D

What’s next? Someone from antifa uses this info and murders someone?

I highly doubt that those faggots could manage to navigate that market without fucking up a deal. Would you deal in stolen goods with people that retarded? And since they're commie fucks, what are they going to do, trade you for it? Antifa is just functionally useless as anything but a violent mob and antagonizing social/media force, and the second part has slowly slipped out the back door when antifa wasn't looking.

 

[Coldgrip]

Man, this summer is getting pretty active. First Capital One then the fucking LAPD lol. I wonder if someone else is going to get H@X0[\3D



I highly doubt that those faggots could manage to navigate that market without fucking up a deal. Would you deal in stolen goods with people that exceptional? And since they're commie fucks, what are they going to do, trade you for it? Antifa is just functionally useless as anything but a violent mob and antagonizing social/media force, and the second part has slowly slipped out the back door when antifa wasn't looking.

This is a bit of a misconception, but antifa losers, while singing the praise of communism, are consumer whores through and through. The rank and file tards might be true believers, but the higher ups absolutely know the value of a dollar and know that attempting to trade goods for info like this is ether going to get them laughed at and then shot to make sure they stay silent, or they have a lot of valuable contraband to trade.

Doesn't really matter though, LA is a lost cause and nuking it would simply be the wisest answer to all it's and the rest of the country's problems.