Hacking Team, which makes spyware for governments, just got hacked

When your company has a name like "Hacking Team," it doesn't look very good if you're the ones getting hacked.

Italy-based Hacking Team, which is best known for developing the surveillance software Remote Control System (also known as RCS or daVinci — essentially spyware for governmental use) has apparently been hacked, with 400GB of data stolen from its servers and posted publicly

The leaked data has been shared on BitTorrent over the weekend and, to make things even worse, a link to the file was posted from Hacking Team's own Twitter page, which was also hacked. The offending tweet has since been removed Read more...