Hackers released data on Tuesday they claim is from the governments of Zimbabwe and Brazil, entertainment giants Universal Music Group and Viacom, and a municipal government in Australia.
The data dump, which the hackers said was the first official release from the AntiSec campaign launched by Anonymous and LulzSec last week, appeared on The Pirate Bay file-sharing site. It purports to offer for download nearly 380MB of data, including information from the Zimbabwean government and Mosman Municipal Council in Australia; Universal Music Group Partners and umusic.com's user passwords; internal mapping of Viacom and its servers; and Brazilian government passwords and other data. The type and origin of the released data could not immediately be verified.
Meanwhile, the Anonymous group also reportedly shut down a tourism website for Orlando, Florida with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to protest the arrest of Food not Bombs volunteers for serving food in public in Orlando without a permit.
For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Hackers: Here's Zimbabwe, Brazil, UMG, Viacom data on CNET News.
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