A hack on Italian surveillance firm Hacking Team late Sunday revealed active contracts between the company and the Egyptian Ministry of Defense that date back to 2011. The unknown hacker uploaded a 400 GB file to a torrent, revealing contracts, invoices, source codes, and internal correspondence between the firm and tens of high-profile clients including the FBI, Sudan, and Egypt. Selling an exploit portal to Egypt in 2012? Seems legit. pic.twitter.com/XuoqpfeiJC— Christopher Soghoian (@csoghoian) July 6, 2015 Records show an invoice worth 58 thousand euros ($64,057) dating back to 2012 for a remote control system (RCS) called Exploit Portal licensed to a company called GNSE Group—an affiliate of Mansour Group. The leaked documents also included spreadsheets that reportedly show the firm’s 2014 client overview and its 2015 forecast. These records show a maintenance transaction between the firm and GNSE Group worth 137 thousand euros ($151,335) that is dated April 17 2015, and expected revenues of around 412,500 euros ($455, 831). Furthermore, the records reveal that in one of the transactions “Egypt MOD (Ministry of Defense)” is listed as the customer while GNSE Egypt is listed as the “Partner / Fulfillment…
Leaks Expose Contract Between Egypt’s Ministry Of Defense And Italian Surveillance Firm
July 8, 2015
