The hacker group LulzSec published 700 confidential documents Thursday apparently stolen from the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
LulzSec announced its latest conquest on Twitter and released the document cache through BitTorrent. The files are a mix of intelligence bulletins and presentations — including some issued by the FBI, DHS and DEA — private e-mail, training manuals and other material, some it marked “law enforcement sensitive” or “For Official Use Only.”
The group claimed it targeted the Arizona cops because LulzSec is opposed to Arizona’s SB1070, the state’s broad and controversial anti-illegal immigration measure.
Immigrant rights is only the latest in LulzSec’s growing policy platform, which already included support for WikiLeaks and the right to tinker with Sony Play Station consoles, and opposition to the Fox talent show The X-Factor.
“Every week we plan on releasing more classified documents and embarrassing personal details of military and law enforcement in an effort not just to reveal their racist and corrupt nature but to purposefully sabotage their efforts to terrorize communities fighting an unjust ‘war on drugs,’” LulzSec wrote Thursday.
None of the Arizona documents are actually classified, but some are revealing. One document the police consider “law enforcement sensitive” is a memo that warns about “iPhone Applications Used Against Officers.” Number one on the list is Cop Recorder, which “can be activated while in a pocket and record everything the officer is saying,” the memo warns.