An unknown hacking group referring to itself as the “Shadow Brokers” has reportedly hacked the National Security Agency and is trying to auction off the data it grabbed.
(FOX)- The group posted some of the data for free on a Tumblr blog over the weekend, Foreign Policy reported Monday, though it had been inexplicably removed by Monday evening.
The NSA has a well-known history of hacking into high profile tech companies in order to insert so-called “backdoors” for breaching security products before they hit the market, which could explain how they ended up stolen in a breach of the agency’s servers.
The Shadow Brokers claimed the information came from hacking the Equation Group, a highly sophisticated threat actor linked to the NSA for its connection to projects like the Stuxnet virus, the malicious software that for years ravaged Iranian nuclear centrifuges.