Salon.com > Par:AnoIA http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 23:46:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Anonymous group claims to show BofA monitored hackers, activists http://www.salon.com/2013/02/27/anonymous_group_claims_to_show_bofa_monitored_hackers_activists/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/27/anonymous_group_claims_to_show_bofa_monitored_hackers_activists/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:10:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13213747 An Anonymous group, identifying itself as Par:AnoIA (aka Anonymous Intelligence Agency) has released 14 Gigabytes of data, code and software that it claims shows how Bank of America employed security firms to monitor hackers and activists.

In a Wednesday press release, Par:AnoIA stated that the data "shows that Bank of America and others are contracting other companies to spy and collect information on private citizens." The release also notes, however, that the "overall quality of the research is poor and potentially false."

The data was not obtained through any hack, but was "stored on a misconfigured server and basically open for grabs."

Leaked documents reveal that TEKSystems assembled  reports on both Occupy  Wall Street online activity and hackers throughout 2012. But  the hackers group called such "intelligence" "sloppy, random and valueless":

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