Anonymous Leaks 90,000 Military/Private contractors Email Accounts

Booz Allen Hamilton is a massive American consulting firm that does a substantial amount of work for the Pentagon. This means they've got a lot of military business on their servers—which Anonymous hacked. Today they've leaked it.

The leak, dubbed 'Military Meltdown Monday,' includes 90,000 logins of military personnel—including personnel from US CENTCOM, SOCOM, the Marine Corps, various Air Force facilities, Homeland Security, State Department staff, and what looks like private sector contractors. Their correspondences could include exchanges with Booz Allen's highly brassy staff of retired defense folk:

current execs include three former Directors of National Intelligence and one former head of the CIA. Anon was also kind enough to gut 4 GB of source code from Booz Allen's servers.

Anon cites the firm's alleged complicity in the SWIFT financial monitoring program as at least partial motive for the attack.
Along with the email release is something of a hacked grabbag:


We'll have to wait a bit to see the extent to which Anonymous has compromised some delicate defense mysteries, if any. At any rate, it's a big chunk of egg in the face of a company tasked with doing the Pentagon's work for it in the interest of our safety.


http://gizmodo.com/5820049/anonymous-leaks-90000-military-email-accounts-in-latest-antisec-attack


Booz Allen's core business is contractual work completed on behalf of the US federal government, foremost on defense and homeland security matters, with limited engagements of foreign governments specific to U.S. military assistance programs. In this vein, Booz Allen’s services include strategy design, operations improvement, information technology work, systems engineering, organizational change efforts, modeling and simulation, program management, specialist staff augmentation, assurance and resilience, and economic and business analysis.

Booz Allen is somewhat unique in that it competes for business with both pure systems integrators and defense contractors such as SAIC, BAE Systems, and Lockheed Martin, as well as with broader management consulting firms with a considerable stake in the public sector market such as Deloitte and Accenture. In 2011, Vault.com, an entity which provides survey based ‘prestige’ rankings of various professional industries, placed Booz Allen Hamilton first in the category of Technology Consulting Firms.


As of July 31, 2008, what was formerly Booz Allen Hamilton’s parent company (which used the Booz Allen name itself) divided into two wholly separate entities, based on a vote by Booz Allen’s senior vice presidents and vice presidents. As a result, the Booz Allen Hamilton moniker would be retained by the half focusing on U.S. governmental matters, with the spinoff Booz & Company taking sole control of its commercial strategy and international portfolio. As a consequence,

Booz Allen Hamilton was majority owned by private equity firm.....The Carlyle Group,,,,,,, and does $5billion with the govt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booz_Allen_Hamilton

This should be interesting.

Wikileaks has some potent friends...

I always thought the boozers were a bit dim, but still, I wouldn't have wished this on them.

in my days working for the man I did not email, nor did I discuss details over the phone. We used to question their security, but I guess in years past, people got lazy and relied on these technologies more and more. I had a computer that would dial in to a secure VPN, I would hand write any messages sent (in lieu of printing), and then log off. We also used couriers, fedex, a lot more than emails which we all assumed were vulnerable.....as it appears they are.

that was responsible for the communications

You needed a government contract like this company
Notice who they are owned by? I did

I then got out back in 03, the week before the war

i]Carlyle has been profiled in two notable documentaries, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 and William Karel's The World According to Bush.

In the documentary film Fahrenheit 911, Michael Moore makes nine allegations concerning the Carlyle Group, including: That the Bin Laden and Bush families were both connected to the Group; that following the attacks on September 11, the bin Laden family’s investments in the Carlyle Group became an embarrassment to the Carlyle Group and the family was forced to liquidate their assets with the firm; that the Carlyle group was, in essence, the 11th largest defense contractor in the United States.<31> Moore focused on Carlyle's connections with George H. W. Bush and his Secretary of State James A. Baker III, both of whom had at times served as advisors to the firm.

A Carlyle spokesman noted in 2003 that its 7% interest in defense industries was far less than several other Private equity firms.<32> Carlyle also has provided detail on its links with the Bin Laden family, specifically the relatively minor investments by an estranged half brother.<33>

In his documentary The World According to Bush (May 2004), William Karel interviewed Frank Carlucci to discuss the presence of Shafiq bin Laden, Osama bin Laden's estranged brother, at Carlyle's annual investor conference while the September 11 attacks were occurring.<33><34>

Zeitgeist The Movie makes similar claims that The Carlyle Group may have played a part in 9/11.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_Group

see who this company was and where it came from.

where it was. All I remember was that if you want to know who had their filthy paws in 9/11, look at Booz Allen. That was the first time I ever heard of that group. Never forgotten that, though.

:thumbsup:

OMFG! Carlyle Group is The Bushies isn't it?

Carlyle is Poppy Bush's 'private equity' money laundering scheme.

:rofl:

Did they do it for the LULZ? :evilgrin: