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Hacker breaches FBI website: Report
- Updated: January 5, 2017
Moscow: A hacker has claimed to have breached a US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s website and leaked personal comment information to a open site, media reported.
The hacker, famous as CyberZeist, exploited a zero-day disadvantage in a highly-secured Plone Content Management System (CMS) of a FBI’s website and leaked some of a information to Pastebin, an open source site that is mostly used by hackers to post stolen information and pieces of code, RT.com reported on Thursday.
A zero-day error is a disadvantage in a formula that has not been detected, listed, or patched yet. Therefore, a FBI had 0 days to respond to a attack.
This is not a initial time a hacker claimed breaching a FBI site. In 2011, CyberZeist is believed to have hacked a FBI site as a member of a organisation famous as Anonymous.
Authorities in a US have not nonetheless responded to a new hacking occurrence that was claimed to have occurred final month.
“fbi.gov CMS Exploited, files in perspective – PasswordResetTool.py, product permissions, setup file. More entrance shortly #FBI #PWNED,” a hacker had tweeted on Dec 22.
“Don’t censure a #hacker, censure a inadequate #code!,” CyberZeist had pronounced in another twitter on Dec 27.
CyberZeist warned other agencies that are now regulating a Plone CMS that they too are exposed to a identical attack. “Amnesty acknowledges to patch a Plone #vulnerability in their CMS, only in time!,” CyberZeist pronounced in a new tweet.