WikiLeaks has now made a searchable database which consists of 400 GB worth of private emails & source codes which were dumped onto the internet after unidentified hackers breached Hacking Team systems & leaked all their files online.
This database is nothing but a giant can of worms for overseas governments around the world from Mexico to Australia. Reports had earlier mentioned that the FBI had spent $ 800000 on software updates & improvements for their Galileo RCS which allows users to break into private computers stealthily.
But the first foray into this database shows that governments which previously used surveillance tools for spying on their citizens or foreign governments were working together with this Milan-based surveillance firm.
Hacking Team’s largest clients include a number of government agencies of Mexico from national to state levels. Agencies like the Centro de Investigacion y Seguridad Nacional and the Procuraduria General de Justicia were part of this list. There are also multiple Indian government agencies which are also implicated from this document including the Intelligence Bureau, Cabinet Secretariat and the National Investigation Army which have also channeled orders through Anupam Tripathi, the GM Business Development at Semco India.
Australian and UK government agencies have also supposedly been Hacking Teams clients in the past.
This database hasn’t been online for more than a few hours and there is already 415 GB worth of data relating to Hacking Team’s affairs available for you to view and download. It won’t be too surprising if some other governments are also linked with this Italian firm when it comes to purchasing surveillance software. So far countries like Russia, Spain, Panama, Malaysia, Chile and Honduras have been exposed as clients of Hacking Team. No one can say for certain which other countries are going to pop up as journalists scan through this treasure cove of information.
