Nearly 180 passwords belonging to members of an Atlanta-based FBI partner organization have been stolen and leaked to the Internet, the group confirmed Sunday.
The logins belonged to members of the local chapter of InfraGard, a public-private partnership devoted to sharing information about threats to U.S. physical and Internet infrastructure, the chapter's president told The Associated Press.
"Someone did compromise the website," InfraGard Atlanta Members Alliance President Paul Farley said in a brief email exchange. "We do not at this time know how the attack occurred or the method used to reveal the passwords."
Copies of the passwords -- which appear to include users from the U.S. Army, cybersecurity organizations and major communications companies -- were posted to the Internet by online hacking collective Lulz Security, which has claimed credit for a string of attacks in the past week.
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Just a question of time before everyone's passwords are hijacked. Microsoft needs to fix these "holes" in security. It's outrageous!
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