The Italian Hacking Team, which sells software tools with zero-day exploits for secret surveillance purposes to law enforcement agencies, woke up to a living nightmare as anti-surveillance people rejoiced.

The Hacking Team’s Twitter named changed to “Hacked Team” as unknown attackers took control of the company’s Twitter account. The bio was changed as well, reading, “Developing ineffective, easy-to-pwn offensive technology to compromise the operations of the worldwide law enforcement and intelligence communities.” All tweets were given in a first-person point-of-view as if the Hacking Team (HT) were tweeting. The first tweet said, “Since we have nothing to hide, we’re publishing all our e-mails, files and source code.” From there on out, tweets included internal company info supplied by unknown attackers and the stolen information went viral via a 400GB torrent.

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