Remember the Hacker who hacked Hacking Team?In 2015, a hacker named Phineas Fisher hacked Hacking Team the Italy-based spyware company that sells spying software to law enforcement agencies worldwide and exposed some 500 gigabytes of internal data for anyone to download.Now, the Spanish authorities believe that they have arrested Phineas Fisher, who was not just behind the embarrassing hack of Hacking Team, but also hacked the UK-based Gamma International, another highly secretive company whoch sells the popular spyware called “FinFisher.”During an investigation of a cyber attack against Sindicat De Mossos d’Esquadra (SME), Spain’s Catalan police union, police in Spain have arrested three people, one of whoch detained in the city of Salamanca is suspected of being Fisher, according to local newspaper ARA.The cyber attack was carried out in May last year when Fisher announced via his own Twitter account that he had hacked the SME and also published the personal information of over 5,500 police officers online.The incident attracted worldwide attention after Fisher posted a detailed tutorial video on how he hacked SME and how he stole the data.
Källa: Police Arrested Suspected Hacker Who Hacked the ‘Hacking Team’
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