Hackers from the group Anonymous have released emails and data taken from a Texas-based defense contractor with the Pentagon and FBI that specializes in developing unmanned aerial vehicles and drones, the Associated Press reported.
Vanguard Defense Industries LLC’s chief executive Michael Buscher told the AP that the emails belong to the company’s senior vice president Richard T. Garcia, who formerly worked as an FBI agent.
Data from Vanguard Defense Industries was revealed in a post on tor2web.org and publicized on the hacker group’s AnonymousIRC Twitter account, according to the International Business Times.
Anonymous claimed in a statement to have released 1 gigabyte of private emails and documents from the Garcia’s account.
But Buscher said Friday that the released material didn’t contain anything “sensitive.”
According to Anonymous’ statement, the emails contained information about the company’s new “ShadowHawk drones,” which are used by military and law enforcement companies, as well as “internal meeting notes and contracts, schematics, non-disclosure agreements, personal information about other VDI employees and several dozen ‘counter-terrorism’ documents classified as ‘law enforcement sensitive’ and ‘for official use only.’”
Anonymous offered no reason for the attack but credited it as part of the group’s “F**k FBI Friday” campaign, which has hit other big name companies with ties to military or law enforcement agencies such as Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. and Monsanto Co.
