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Interception Software Company Hacked, Controversial Dealings Revealed

Friday, July 17th, 2015

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HackingTeam, a Milan, Italy-based company that makes surveillance software for governments was hacked on the evening of July 5, according to several reports, including Reuters.Four hundred gigabites (GB) of internal documents from Hacking Team were released to the public as a Torrent file and on July 6 the company’s Twitter account was hijacked for almost 12 hours and used to further point to the released information, media reports said. “Since we have nothing to hide, we're publishing all our emails, files…

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