{"id":15569,"date":"2012-04-17T10:12:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T17:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mcafee.com\/?p=15569"},"modified":"2025-06-02T00:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T07:45:55","slug":"hacker-leaves-online-trail-loses-anonymity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/other-blogs\/mcafee-labs\/hacker-leaves-online-trail-loses-anonymity\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacker Leaves Online Trail, Loses Anonymity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since March 20, the @Anonw0rmer Twitter account has been silent. Its owner, w0rmer, is known as a member of the CabinCr3w group, a hacker team linked to Anonymous.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/?attachment_id=15571\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15571\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_1-300x102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_1-300x102.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_1-1024x349.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_1.jpg 1162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Hacked Websites by the CabinCr3w<\/h2>\n<p>In early February, as part of the Operations PiggyBank and PigRoast, the CabinCr3w members were suspected of hacking various police department- or law enforcement-related websites including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association website (February 5)<\/li>\n<li>Salt Lake City Police Department<\/li>\n<li>Texas Police Association (February 8&#8242;)<\/li>\n<li>Syracuse Police Department<\/li>\n<li>Newark Police Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Wisconsin Chiefs of Police Association<\/li>\n<li>Dallas Police Department<\/li>\n<li>Alabama Department of Public Safety (February 9)<\/li>\n<li>Alabama Houston County (February 20)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Among the leaked data are login credentials, badge numbers, addresses, home\/mobile\/office phones, and social security numbers. They\u00a0information was leaked to the public and posted on pastebin, pastebay, or pastehtml. The data were generally posted on Twitter account @CabinCr3r, which has been silent since March 12.<\/p>\n<p>On February 5, the first post appeared Twitter account @higochoa. More appeared on @Anonw0rmer, which was created the following day.<\/p>\n<p>In the Alabama case, the leaked data were posted on pastehtml by someone named w0rmer. The user&#8217;s Twitter profile picture was at the top of the document. At the bottom, our hacker added a photo exhibiting a woman\u2019s breasts with a sign attached to her belly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/?attachment_id=15574\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15574\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2719\" height=\"1033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_21.jpg 2719w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_21-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_21-1024x389.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2719px) 100vw, 2719px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, w0rmer was not concerned with what was revealed by the exchangeable image file format (Exif) metadata that accompanied these images. The police, however, were.<\/p>\n<p>I found that downloading the picture and using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sno.phy.queensu.ca\/~phil\/exiftool\/\">Phil Harvey&#8217;s ExifTool<\/a>\u00a0was very informative. I discovered the photo was taken with an iPhone 4 on February 5. Most interesting is the embedded GPS information. It came from a home in Southern Australia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/?attachment_id=15576\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15576\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1166\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_3.jpg 1166w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_3-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_3-1024x558.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1166px) 100vw, 1166px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As mentioned in the<a href=\"http:\/\/cryptome.org\/2012\/04\/usa-v-ochoa-complaint.pdf\"> affidavit in support of a criminal complaint,<\/a>\u00a0the hacker left some other clues that I followed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two IP addresses assigned to computers located in Galveston, Texas<\/li>\n<li>Five other images (Exif free) posted on the i.imgur.com website, where one finds the same woman in various states of undress holding various other statements by w0rmer or CabinCr3w<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/?attachment_id=15577\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15577\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1116\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_4.jpg 1116w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_4-300x61.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_4-1024x208.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1116px) 100vw, 1116px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A screenshot in another image shows a computer desktop running an IRC chat client (KVIrc) at the bottom right. In its window, the user @higochoa is logged on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/?attachment_id=15578\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15578\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_5.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_5-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_5-1024x483.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following the username, I found two posts retrieved via an open-source search on the website gmane.org. One is signed Higino Ochoa AkA w0rmer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/?attachment_id=15581\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15581\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_6.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_6-300x93.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I next retrieved a photo via open-source search for @Higochoa that showed an individual geocaching in Texas. This picture, compared with the one displayed on the driver&#8217;s license of the suspect, was of the same individual.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/?attachment_id=15582\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15582\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"843\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_7.jpg 843w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_7-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The same person had a Facebook account and another identifiable portrait. According to the profile, the suspect resides in the Galveston area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/?attachment_id=15583\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15583\" src=\"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"736\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_8.jpg 736w, https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/FP_BLOG_120416_8-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On his Facebook profile he states that he is in a relationship with a woman whose Facebook profile indicates she lives in New South Wales, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Thus we come full circle. Be careful before breaking the law. Using only open-source searches, even an Anonymous member can be unmasked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since March 20, the @Anonw0rmer Twitter account has been silent. Its owner, w0rmer, is known as a member of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[1814],"coauthors":[3973],"class_list":["post-15569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcafee-labs","tag-computer-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hacker Leaves Online Trail, Loses Anonymity | McAfee Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Since March 20, the @Anonw0rmer Twitter account has been silent. 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