TeaMp0isoN is a group of Black-Hat computer hackers established in mid-2009. TeaMp0isoN has ten core members, as stated within their web-based zine. TeaMp0isoN is affiliated with various Anti-US and Anti-Israel hacking teams, such as the Mujahideen Hacking Unit and ZCompany Hacking Crew (ZHC).[1] Some of TeaMp0isoN's targets appear to include: LulzSec, the English Defence League, Tony Blair, Facebook, the Indian Government, NASA, r00tsecurity, unkn0wn.eu, Anonymous and various US government servers containing confidential information, amongst others.
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In January 2011 strange unauthorized status updates were posted on Mark Zuckerberg and French President Nicolas Sarkozy accounts in social-networking site Facebook. On January 25, a spokesperson for Facebook acknowledged the bug in their system and said it has been fixed. Later that week The Daily Beast reported that TeaMp0isoN 16-year old hacker TriCk along with members of a hacking team known as "ZHC" said they had exploited a bug in the web site on previous New Year Eve, allowing them to post unauthorized status updates and to block temporary newsfeeds to a list of 130 pages. A spokeswoman for one of the targeted groups, the English Defense League, confirmed that they were targeted and their pages critical of Islam were indeed hacked. Members of Facebook's security team said after being contacted on the matter by The Daily Beast with the list of pages that they had found no evidence of malicious activity according to their logs.[2]
The group published in Pastebin what appeared to be the address book and other private data of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in June 2011. According to TeaMp0isoN the data was obtained originally "via a private exploit" in December 2010. According to Blair's spokesman the data was not obtained from Blair directly but from the personal email account of his former staff.[3]
The group is a rival of LulzSec and being motivated by what they perceive as LulzSec's low hacking abilities bringing them media attention they do not deserve. Another member of the group, Hex00010, used a derogatory term script kiddies to describe LulzSecs activists: "We're here to show the world that they're nothing but a bunch of script kiddies [y]ou think, 'I'm a bad-ass hacker because I can knock someone offline for a few minutes.' That's bullshit. Come on."[4] TeaMp0isoN released the alleged personal details of various LulzSec members alongside information on the AnonOps IRC server, including IP addresses, and hashed passwords.[5] The website of alleged LulzSec member, JoePie91, was defaced by TeaMp0isoN members TriCk and iN^SaNe [6]
On 8 August 2011, TeaMp0isoN released the hashed administrator passwords for NASA website after using a vBulletin SQL injection vulnerability.[7]
During 2011 England riots it was believed that BlackBerry Messenger service was used by looters for collaboration. The group defaced the official BlackBerry blog as a response to Research In Motion (RIM), the maker of the BlackBerry, promising to co-operate with the UK police and government. TeaMp0isoN's statement said: "We are all for the rioters that are engaging in attacks on the police and government."[8]
In July 2011, TeaMp0isoN released .pdf documents that appear to have came from Government web-servers and was meant to be confidential. Among these documents, TeaMp0isoN released 8 whitewashed court cases against Sarah Palin, TeaMp0isoN then went on to hint that Barack Obama would be their next target. The next day, TeaMp0isoN released 11 whitewashed court cases against Barack Obama. TeaMp0isoN claims these court cases provide evidence of Barack Obama breaking laws and abusing people's civil rights. TeaMp0isoN then went on to release legal documents regarding Aafia Siqqidui, in an attempt to expose the government.[9]
In response to to support Occupy Wall Street's beating by police around the world, an online announcement claims that TeaMp0isoN joined Anonymous to launch Operation Robin Hood, intending to hack into websites, obtain credit cards and make donations to activist organizations while the banks would have to refund the hacked accounts.[10][11] The video states: "Operation Robin Hood will take credit cards and donate to the 99% as well as various charities around the globe. The banks will be forced to reimburse the people there money back." while encouraging to "move your accounts into secure credit unions,[10] in an echo to the Bank Transfer Day movement.
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