A group of hackers claiming to be affiliated with the “Anonymous” group which has attacked the websites of Ireland’s ruling party, Koch Industries, Bank of America and others has released the private telephone numbers and other personal information of many Hollywood celebrities and professional athletes.
The hackers who call themselves “Hollywood Leaks” leaked the script for Rock of Ages, a film by Tom Cruise. They also leaked the telephone numbers of singer Miley Cyrus, Twilight actress Ashley Greene and Dancing with the Stars Season 5 winner and Indy 500 champion Helio Castroneves, among others.
Hollywood Leaks also hijacked the Twitter account of Gucci Gucci rapper Kreayshawn and released topless photographs of her to her over 300,000 followers. The entertainer claimed that the images were taken while she was underage. Hollywood Leaks told Gawker that the images were taken when the rapper was 20.
Gawker reported that a member of the group said that it had information on a prominent Hollywood film director. Gawker also reported that Hollywood Leaks claims to have another unreleased movie script and many more private contacts it will release in the future.
Chaos Computer Club
The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) is an organization of hackers. The CCC is based in Germany and other German-speaking countries.
The CCC describes itself as "a galactic community of life forms, independent of age, sex, race or societal orientation, which strives across borders for freedom of information...." In general, the CCC advocates more transparency in government, freedom of information, and the human right to communication. Supporting the principles of the hacker ethic, the club also fights for free universal access to computers and technological infrastructure
The CCC became world famous when they drew public attention to the security flaws of the German Bildschirmtext computer network by causing it to debit a bank in Hamburg DM 134,000 in favor of the club. The money was returned the next day in front of the press. Prior to the incident, the system provider had failed to react to proof of the security flaw provided by the CCC, claiming to the public that their system was safe. Bildschirmtext was the biggest commercially available online system targeted at the general public in its region at that time, run and heavily advertised by the German telecommunications agency (Deutsche Bundespost) which also strove to keep up-to-date alternatives out of the market.
In 1989, the CCC was peripherally involved in the first cyberespionage case to make international headlines. A group of German hackers led by Karl Koch, who was loosely affiliated with the CCC, was arrested for breaking into US government and corporate computers and selling operating-system source code to the Soviet KGB.
The CCC is more widely known for its public demonstrations of security risks. In 1996, CCC members demonstrated an attack against Microsoft's ActiveX technology, changing personal data in a Quicken database. In April 1998, the CCC successfully demonstrated the cloning of a GSM customer card, breaking the COMP128 encryption algorithm used at that time by many GSM SIMs.
In 2001, the CCC celebrated its twentieth birthday with an interactive light installation dubbed Project Blinkenlights that turned the building Haus des Lehrers in Berlin into a giant computer screen. A follow up installation (dubbed "Arcade") at the Bibliothèque nationale de France was the world's biggest light installation ever.
In March 2008, the CCC acquired and published the fingerprints of German Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble. The magazine also included the fingerprint on a film that readers could use to fool fingerprint readers. This was done to protest the use of biometric data in German identity devices such as e-passports.
Later in October 2008, CCC's Project Blinkenlights went to Toronto, Canada with project Stereoscope.
Famous members are co-founder Wau Holland and Andy Müller-Maguhn, who was a member of the ICANN board of directors for Europe until 2002. Former WikiLeaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg was expelled from CCC in August 2011, during its annual camp.
Chaos Computer Club FranceThe Chaos Computer Club France (CCCF) was a fake hacker organization created in 1989 in Lyon (France) by Jean-Bernard Condat, under the commandment of Jean-Luc Delacour, an agent of the Direction de la surveillance du territoire governmental agency. The primary goal of the CCCF was to watch and to gather information about the French hacker community. Journalist Jean Guisnel said that this organization also worked with the French National Gendarmerie.
The name of the organization is directly inspired by the name of the German Chaos Computer Club organization, which in contrast is a real hacker organization.