Submission + - Anonymous hacks Austrian's radio and TV fee agency (austrianindependent.com)
Csiko writes: The Austrian organization GIS is encashing the obligatory fee for using a TV set and receiving the national braodcast ORF in Austria. Data privacy activists have for long criticized the way how GIS is collecting and sloppily protecting data about private households.
The Anonymous net activists now hacked the GIS site and retrieved data sets from more than 214,000 customers. 96,000 of the data featured clients’ bank account information.
Anonymous did publish only a few addresses from people working in goverment but threatened to disclose the data unless GIS was forced to admit to what extend data was stolen. GIS promised to improve their handling of data.
The Anonymous net activists now hacked the GIS site and retrieved data sets from more than 214,000 customers. 96,000 of the data featured clients’ bank account information.
Anonymous did publish only a few addresses from people working in goverment but threatened to disclose the data unless GIS was forced to admit to what extend data was stolen. GIS promised to improve their handling of data.