14 DAY TRIAL // Anonymous has done it again, and this time the group's hackers breached the servers of the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) and leaked information about employees and various partners.
This particular branch of the Anonymous group calls itself the World Hacker Team, and during their most recent operation, they've breached and stolen data from the USDA's National Agricultural Library (nal.usda.gov).
After exfiltrating the information from their target's servers, the hackers posted it on anonymous text hosting sites and then announced their actions via CyberGuerilla, a website where anyone can log in and post news stories.
Analyzing the stolen data, we see it's a raw database dump, containing information like website logins, USDA staff details, and data about distributors.
Personally identifiable data includes details like full name, email addresses, organization name, organization address, ZIP codes, fax and phone numbers.
HackRead confirms the data is authentic, and it has never been seen online before the hack.
This recent incident is part of a larger Anonymous campaign, #OpMonsanto, going on for the past two years. The group's members do not take too kind to Monsanto, an American multinational agrochemical, and agricultural biotechnology corporation.
The company is most known for its GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) crops, which it has been pushing over natural products, and its potent herbicides. For both, the company has been facing a lot of criticism.