Arizona State Police Hit with Second Data Dump

Grand Canyon State State Police recently fell victim to a second embarrassing data dump that included information stolen from the attribute e-mail accounts of 12 Arizona patrol officers. The stolen data, according to the hackers, includes name calling, addresses, phone numbers, passwords, Social Security numbers, online dating account info, voicemails, gossip logs, internal police reports, and racist mountain chain e-mails. Hackers also suppose they nabbed the personal data of Stephen Harrison, a spokesman for the Arizona Department of Exoteric Safety.

The Populace Safety Department confirmed its officers were targets of the latest data dumpsite, referring to the hackers as a "cyberwar group." "Law enforcement agencies are functioning to distinguish the source of the cyberattack," the section said in a command. Grand Canyon State's Counter Terrorism Information Center is also involved in the investigating.

Not in it for the Lulz

The second Arizona data dump was first announced happening Twitter through an account associated with the hacker collective Anonymous. It also comes less than a week after the hacker grouping Lulz Security free an initial trove of Arizona police information.

Contempt an association with Unnamed, the second data leak was discharged under the moniker AntiSec. That name was primitively a call to blazon from LulzSec asking hackers around the globe to "steal and leak any classified government information." But AntiSec appears to have transformed from a campaign to leak close information into a new offshoot of Unnamed that may include members of the directly disbanded hacker group, LulzSec.

"The objective of #AntiSec is different [from LulzSec]," the mathematical group said in its original data dump Wednesday that supposedly includes data from Universal, Viacom, and the Brazilian and Zimbabwean governments. "Information technology is our typical belief that this movement has the capability to change the humanity … we provide material that is principally against grease one's palms governments (in our humankind this is every governments) and corrupt companies."

AntiSec said IT has more information releases contrived for the approximate future that are "bonded to bring smiles to the faces of whol those World Health Organization possess hated the law."

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