Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Protester's hacked city computer got police officer's names and star number's and posted them on twitter

Chicago police are investigating whether its supervisors whose names have appeared in news reports during the NATO summit coverage had been targeted online, a police source said.

The source also said the wife of a high-ranking police supervisor was told by phone Monday that her husband had been shot to death. The caller then threatened the woman's life.

The names of supervisors — including their star numbers — had appeared in tweets during the NATO Summit, which saw Chicago police clash at times with protesters, a police source said.

A criminal investigation was under way, but there was no indication that the department's website had been compromised, the source said.

Federal authorities are already investigating an unrelated report that hackers compromised the city's website over the weekend. A group using the name antis3curityops sent out a message on Twitter at 6:17 a.m. Sunday directing people to "fire" on chicagopolice.org and chicagosergeants.org.

A Twitter user who claims affiliation with Anonymous, an international hacker community, tweeted a message that the site has been hacked or targeted.

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