Hackers Air Feds’ Sexual Preferences and Pose as Baltimore Prosecutor in Freddie Gray Case

In case you missed our coverage this week in ThreatWatch, Nextgov’s regularly updated index of cyber breaches:

Sexual Preferences of Government Employees Allegedly Leaked

The hack of dating site Adult FriendFinder has potentially subjected nearly 4 million people, including federal personnel, to the risk of blackmail and identity theft.

“Andrew Auernheimer, a controversial computer hacker who looked through the files, used Twitter to publicly identify Adult FriendFinder customers, including a Washington police academy commander, an FAA employee, a California state tax worker and a naval intelligence officer who supposedly tried to cheat on his wife,” CNN reports.

Asked why he was outing agency personnel, Auernheimer said, "I went straight for government employees because they seem the easiest to shame."

Baltimore Prosecutor Says Her Hacked Twitter Account ‘Favorited’ Anti-Cop Tweet

State's Attorney for Baltimore City Marilyn Mosby denies endorsing a racially charged tweet and one labeling police officers charged in the Freddie Gray case “thugs.” It’s already known her official government Twitter account was hacked last week. But this was the first time anyone has claimed Mosby’s personal account also was hijacked. The two tweets at issue were posted May 6.

Asian Telecom Pacnet Was Hacked While the Company Was Being Sold

About two weeks before Australian communications provider Telstra completed an acquisition of Asian undersea cable company Pacnet, an attacker broke into Pacnet’s corporate network. “We know they had access to the network,” Mike Burgess, Telstra’s chief information security officer, said May 20. “We don’t know what they took, we don’t know where they went in terms of information sources and that’s why we took the decision to inform all our customers.”

‘Yemen Cyber Army’ Claims to Have Dug Into Saudi Government Secrets

As a Saudi coalition unleashes airstrikes against Yemen, a group of hacktivists says it has raided classified computer files from a number of Riyadh’s government agencies. Known as the Yemen Cyber Army, the group is acting up in the style of hacktivist collective Anonymous.

"Your Network Hacked By Yemen Cyber Army," reads one batch of data published online by the group. "We Are Anonymous. We Are Everywhere. We Are Legion. We do Not Forgive. We do Not Forget. Stop Attacking To Our Country!"