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Starting from December 31st, the Dark Overlord hacker group began threatening that it would leak more than 18,000 “secret” documents stolen from insurers and government agencies, claiming that it contained the truth of 9/11.
The group said they were putting the documents up for auction.
“If you’re a terrorist organization such as ISIS/, Al-Qaeda, or a competing nation-state of the USA such as China or Russia, you’re welcome to purchase our trove of documents,” they said. “What we’ll be releasing is the truth. The truth about one of the most recognizable incidents in recent history and one which is shrouded in mystery with little transparency and not many answers.”
https://twitter.com/tdo_h4ck3rs/status/1080216025541554181
Initial MSM reports claimed that it was just insurance litigation that the hacker group had stolen and threaten to release. However it seems that there are at least some classified and confidential documents “from FAA, FBI, TSA, USDOJ, and others.”
As proof, the group released a few “teaser documents” for everybody to see:
https://twitter.com/tdo_h4ck3rs/status/1079754777955713024
https://twitter.com/tdo_h4ck3rs/status/1079813957970419712
They requested to be paid in bitcoin in order not to leak the documents. Furthermore, on January 1st the group said it would provide a limited number of keys to specific news publishers.
https://twitter.com/tdo_h4ck3rs/status/1080098655502258177
In the early hours of January 2nd, the group said it was releasing the first key for the “preview_documents” container. Veracrypt could be used to decrypt it and see the contents:
https://twitter.com/tdo_h4ck3rs/status/1080232896710037504
And the key is the following:
https://twitter.com/tdo_h4ck3rs/status/1080241219391840257
Anybody that would like their name redacted from the document can contact the group and, for a fee, have it removed.
https://twitter.com/tdo_h4ck3rs/status/1080207039391907841
The group also claimed that it was behind the April 2018 Hiscox hacking. The firm acknowledges could have exposed 1,500 of its US commercial policyholders. The Dark Overlord claims that while their ransom was paid in relation to that earlier hack, their victim violated the “agreement” by cooperating with law enforcement, necessitating further extortion.
https://twitter.com/tdo_h4ck3rs/status/1079756719469649923
“Hiscox Syndicates Ltd and Lloyds of London are some of the biggest insurers on the planet insuring everything from the smallest policies to some of the largest policies on the planet, and who even insured structures such as the World Trade Centers,” Dark Overlord said.
Furthermore, it hacked “a major and very dodgy offshore investment bank” advantagelife.com:
https://twitter.com/tdo_h4ck3rs/status/1080159347286728704
It appears that the group’s efforts are starting to ramp up. They initially got some friction when they leaked the latest season of Orange Is The New Black in May 2017, after receiving a $50,000 ransom. The hacker group claimed responsibility for the online leak of unreleased episodes of ABC’s new competition reality series Funderdome.
