Wow – not great. ‘Anonymous’ has hacked the SA Police’s website in a revenge attack for the killings at Marikana. telephone numbers, email addresses and identity numbers of over 15,700 people have been exposed. Yoh!

According to ENCA:

Hundreds of whistle blowers have had their private details exposed after the SAPS (South African Police Service) website was hacked.

On Friday, hackers used what is called a ‘data dump’ where all the information from the site was taken and placed on a publicly accessible website.

In so doing, the identities of nearly 16,000 South Africans, who lodged a complaint with police on their website, provided tip-offs or reported crimes, are now publicly available.

Details that are compromised include telephone numbers, email addresses and identity numbers of over 15,700 people who used the website from 2005 to this year.

Also included are the usernames and passwords of some 40 SAPS members.

Hackers used the social networking site Twitter to inform the public that they breached police security. This, they said was “for the 34 miners killed during clashes with police in Marikana on August 16 2012”.

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Anonymous have previously shown interest in South African law and politics.

You might remember this video:

That video has copy underneath that reads:

Message from Anonymous to the people of South Africa in support of the Taking Back South Africa 2011 Movement.

According to memeburn:

The message goes on to detail how the people have been robbed of the wealth of the country, and how companies like Anglo American and the Oppenheimer family have gotten rich at the expense of the masses. This is followed by a list of South Africa’s social problems, from drugs and murder to domestic violence and organised gangs “while the police are rendered impotent by the very laws that govern South Africa”.
How long will we allow this to go on, asks the voice of Anonymous, before exhorting the people to “stand up and show the world that enough is enough”. The final part of the message is a warning to the government that the people will stand it no longer, and drives home the message “expect us”.

The tone of the message shifts from speaking in the third person in the first half of the message, to something more inclusive at the end. “We the people are taking our country back”, “Enough of selling our resources to the West” says the voice, and the switch to first person plural indicates that the message originates in South Africa from a homegrown branch of Anonymous.

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They also had a go at SA at the beginning of this year.

Check it out – from Mail & Guardian:

As if hacker affiliations weren’t complicated enough, the so-called official Anonymous group of South Africa on Wednesday denied any alliance with Team GhostShell, the internet group who on Tuesday posted just over a hundred separate documents with private information from companies including Sasol, Woolworths and Post-Net. GhostShell said ” … it was decided that a new Anonymous branch needs to be created to enforce the peoples [sic] will in [South Africa] and form an open bond with the rest of the world, just so that anyone can know at all times the current events that happen there”.

Within the last 72 hours a group calling themselves The Ghost Shell who claimed to be allied with Anonymous South Africa performed a series of penetrations on various systems and leaked the information of some [700 000] individuals.” Anonymous stated. “We condemn these attacks in the strongest possible terms … as we believe they serve little purpose to the cause and ethos we are sworn to.”

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Read the rest of today’s ENCA report HERE.