Hong Kong Police Website Hacked, Database Leaked by Portugal Cyber Army

Official Police of Hong Kong website(www.police.gov.hk) hacked by the renowned  hacker groups Portugal Cyber Army & HighTech Brazil HackTeam, database credentials leaked online  by the hackers under the operation called #OpFuckThePolice.

The hackers announced the hack and leaked information on official twitter handle.

This is not the first time police website hacked and credentials leaked online, Some days ago, Chinese Police website was hacked by the hacker under the same operation. The hackers said on the leaked document, this is a first round of the operation, they gonna next target Police of Ecuador

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Anatomy of the attack on the police site is not known. It seems hacker found and exploited SQL Injection flaw on the website and dumped the database of the website.

Targeted Website:
www.police.gov.hk

Leaked Database:
http://pastebin.com/PDEkRttB

The leaked data by the hackers contains email addresses of Police Officials and different departments with the encrypted passwords  and IP addresses, The encrypted passwords possibly of MD5 Hashes, a weak hash type which can easily be cracked. The Hong Kong Police Department needs to take a decent look into the security in order to protect their data.