The self-described “homosexual furry hackers” of SiegedSec are again: this time boasting they’ve damaged into America’s greatest nuclear energy lab’s laptop methods and stolen data on 1000’s of workers. Some of that knowledge has already been leaked, it seems.
SiegedSec, which additionally claimed to have breached NATO’s IT safety on two events this yr, mentioned it has now hit Idaho National laboratory (INL), which is run by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy. Employee Social Security numbers, bodily addresses, and checking account knowledge are among the many info mentioned to have been pinched.
The lab has at the very least acknowledged its HR methods suffered a cyberattack.
“On Monday, November 20, Idaho National Laboratory decided that it was the goal of a cybersecurity knowledge breach in a federally permitted vendor system exterior the lab that helps INL cloud Human Resources providers,” spokesperson Lori McNamara advised The Register immediately.
“INL has taken instant motion to guard worker knowledge.”
The boffinry nerve-center has known as within the cops and promised to emit extra info because the state of affairs evolves.
East Idaho News reported it was capable of affirm the authenticity of the leaked info with a number of INL workers, which SiegedSec earlier posted to its Telegram channel.
The self-styled furry hackers in the meantime have supplied to take away the workers data if the lab performs experiments that at finest may very well be described as extremely irregular.
“We’re keen to make a cope with INL. If they analysis creating IRL catgirls we’ll take down this publish,” the group mentioned. The creation of actual cat-human feminine hybrids is a regularly posted meme in sure corners of the web, however it’s not the laboratory’s specialty.
According to the hacktivists, the invaders gained access to “tons of of 1000’s of person, worker and citizen knowledge,” amongst it full names, dates of start, e-mail addresses, social safety numbers, employment data and “tons tons extra!”
INL employs greater than 6,100 folks in and round Idaho Falls at its huge 890-square mile web site, which homes the densest focus of nuclear reactors on the earth. The 70-year-old facility has been instrumental within the improvement of nuclear energy, was the home of the primary nuclear generator to supply a usable quantity of electrical energy, and developed the primary nuclear propulsion system for US Navy submarines.
The lab has constructed and operated 52 nuclear reactors over its life, and continues to analysis superior nuclear vitality ideas. In addition to nuclear vitality analysis, INL additionally works on different vitality options, reminiscent of enhancing electrical car batteries, plus defending the ability grid, and designing small modular reactors.
It’s unclear what motivated SiegedSec’s attack on INL. In its earlier community penetration of NATO the group attributed its actions to the army org’s “assaults on human rights,” including that it is also “enjoyable to leak paperwork.” ®
