FSB contractor hacked, secret files swiped
A contractor for Russian intelligence agency the FSB was hacked on July 13, with about 7.5TB of data stolen, it was reported this week.
It's understood a hacker gang calling itself 0v1ru$ compromised systems operated by FSB IT provider SyTech, and an archive of data siphoned from the biz was passed to journalists to pore over.
Among the swiped files, we're told, were blueprints for a Tor deanonymizing effort dubbed Nautilus-S, as well as a project to map out Russia's internet links to the outside world. There were also documents on the surveillance of selected Russian corporate email accounts, attempts to spy on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks (including BitTorrent), and a project to harvest social network profiles in 2009 to 2010 (think Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and their ilk).
Source: theregister.co.uk