A Tweet Response to a Government Contractor Hack

By Nathan Hodge
The Twitterverse is, well, atwitter over an apparent hack attack against government contracting and consulting heavyweight Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
Fittingly enough, the company is sticking to the microblogging website in reply.
AntiSec, an apparent spinoff of the hacking group Anonymous, said Monday it had infiltrated networks belonging to Booz Allen – and had obtained thousands of military email addresses and passwords in the process. “We infiltrated a server on their network that basically had no security measures in place,” read a message posted on a website called the Pirate Bay. “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."

Booz Allen’s official response? The following tweet: “As part of @BoozAllen security policy, we generally do not comment on specific threats or actions taken against our systems.”
The attack, dubbed “Military Meltdown Monday” quickly picked up a Twitter hashtag (#militarymeltdownmonday). And plenty of tweeters are weighing in on the crisis P.R. response of Booz Allen, a major Beltway contracting firm that provides myriad services to U.S. agencies and private clients, including cyber security.
It’s hard to gauge, then, how seriously the company – or the government, or its clients – take the incident. “We are aware of the incident and coordinating with our federal partners,” said a Department of Defense official, without further elaboration.
From: Washington Wire
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