Thug officials discuss how to deal with hackers.
LONDON, England (PNN) - February 5, 2012 - The conversation covered updates to ongoing court cases, the recent arrest of a 15-year-old for hacking his school website, and even touched on cheese and the merits of Sheffield.
One thug officer appears to refer to the city as a “khazi” - slang for toilet - and tells an Amerikan colleague, “You’ve missed nothing, it’s not exactly a jewel in England’s crown.”
They seem to think the Bullring shopping center in Birmingham is actually in Sheffield and also refer to a colleague as an “old school detective but mad as a box of frogs”.
The Anonymous hacker managed to listen in to the call after accessing an FBI email that gave details of the intended call. The email was also posted online.
Writing on the Twitter account, AnonymousIRC, one hacker said, “The FBI might be curious how we’re able to continuously read their internal comms for some time now.”
The FBI confirmed hackers had intercepted a confidential phone call, and said it was hunting those responsible.
The FBI email referred to an investigation on both sides of the Atlantic into a number of hacking groups.
It read, “A conference call is planned for next Tuesday (January 17, 2012) to discuss the ongoing investigations related to Anonymous, Lulzsec, Antisec, and other associated splinter groups.”
The recording, which was posted on YouTube, refers to the ongoing court case against Ryan Cleary - arrested last June for his alleged role in the group LulzSec.
It also refers to a 15-year-old listed as a member of CSLSec (Can’t Stop Laughing Security), a copycat group of hackers with only three known members.
In the conversation, British thug cops, identified only as Matt and Stuart, explain that the teenager was arrested before Christmas for an alleged incident involving his school and that he apparently claimed to have taken part in a hacking incident called “Operation Mayhem”.
The thug cops also claim he wrote a confession through his school; one thug cop says he writes about “how he got involved, what he’s done, almost clearing the slate now he’s come to the notice of the cops.”
The 15 year-old, who is not being named for legal reasons, has sent out a number of tweets responding to the posting saying, “lol [laughs out loud] I’m UK not USA, no FBI can touch me. Idiot...why wud FBI talk about me? I’m not even US & haven’t been arrested. I’m still here ain’t I? lol...I haven’t heard it yet...& I haven’t got a UK agent lol.”
The boy says he designed websites for family, friends and people online, making a “couple $100 a month” and used his pocket money of around £10 each week and funds from hacking to invest in “advertising and other things such as stocks etc, which some I still hold and are growing today.”
In mid-May last year he says he got caught after he hacked into his school’s website and they traced his IP number, got the phone number from Virgin Media, and called his house.
“My nine-year-old brother picked up and of course, gave my name away,” he writes, adding, “I got a police referral order for six months, where they would regularly check my PC BUT I had a laptop, netbook and other people’s/family’s computers at my disposal.”
Since then he claims to have hacked the BBC and PBS, the Amerikan TV station, along with Goodyear tires.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said, “We are aware of the video, which relates to an FBI conference call involving a PCeU [Police Central e-crime Unit] representative. “The matter is being investigated by the FBI. At this stage no operational risks to the MPS have been identified; however, we continue to carry out a full assessment.”
