March 30,2016
Ridgewood NJ , a Pro-ISIS Group Hacked the NJ Transit Police website and published personal Information on New Jersey Transit officers.The group known as the Caliphate Cyber Army first released the personal details of 55 officers in early March.
The group known as the Caliphate Cyber Army (CCA) first released the personal details of 55 officers in early March after hacking into the NJ Transit police website,Newsweek reported. The newsmagazine saw the list of personal details, which included home addresses, phone numbers, names and ranks.
Information was released on a pro-ISIS Twitter account published and a list of New Jersey Transit officers’ names and personal information, encouraging supporters to carry out “lone wolf” attacks on them, according to sources and published reports.
The Twitter account that linked out to the list has since been suspended, but another tweet referencing the list was sent Monday, was reported on NBC 4 New York but It’s not clear who sent the tweet.
The original file was uploaded to an Arabic-language file sharing site on March 2 and was downloaded 300 times by March 5, the Daily Mail reports.
In a statement, NJ Transit spokeswoman Lisa Torbic said the agency’s information system was not compromised, “however some information was breached from an outside vendor.”, she went on the New Jersey Transit Police Department is working with the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI on this matter,”
