The firm that has partnered with the University of Maryland to teach cybersecurity has been hacked.
Booz Allen Hamilton, a contractor that provides cybersecurity to federal defense agencies, had its servers breached on Monday, the Washington Business Journal reported.
The group "Anonymous," which has launched cyber-attacks on businesses, banks, and governments around the world, claimed responsibility for the hack. They posted the following message on the website Pirate Bay:
"We infiltrated a server on their network that basically had no security measures in place. We were able to run our own application, which turned out to be a shell and began plundering some booty. Most shiny is probably a list of roughly 90,000 military emails and password hashes (md5, non-salted of course!). We also added the complete sqldump, compressed ~50mb, for a good measure."
At the end of their message, the group Anonymous included a $310 bill for the Booz Allen Hamilton, for what they called an "audit of your security systems."
Booz Allen, which has a base in McLean, Virginia, partnered with University of Maryland last fall to offer a range of graduate certificate programs on protecting information infrastructure.
