Need Some Espionage Done? Hackers Are for Hire Online New York Times (01/15/15) Goldstein, Matthew Hacking is often associated with intelligence agencies, international criminal gangs, shadowy political operatives and disgruntled hacktivists, but it has increasingly become a personal enterprise. A website that opened for business in early November shows that ordinary people are also looking to hire hackers for smaller acts of espionage. Users of Hackers List have posted job offers looking for hackers to check to see if a loved one is cheating on them, retrieve a lost password, change a school grade, and scrub the Internet of embarrassing photos and stories. Other customers want to break into a landlords website or get a list of clients from a competitors database. More than 500 hacking jobs have been put out to bid. The matter-of-fact nature of the job postings shows how commonplace low-profile hacking has become and the challenge such activity presents for law enforcement at a time when federal and state authorities are concerned about data security.
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:35:04 +0000
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