Anonymous Breaches US Law Enforcement Sites, Exposes Sensitive Info

The group known as Anonymous said Saturday it has hacked into some 70 mostly rural law enforcement websites in the United States, a breach that one local police chief said had leaked information about an ongoing investigation. The loose-knit international hacking collective posted a cache of data to the Web early Saturday, including emails stolen from officers, tips which appeared to come from members of the public, credit card numbers and other sensitive information.

Anonymous said it had stolen 10 gigabytes worth of data in all.

Tim Mayfield, a police chief in small-town Gassville, Arkansas, told The Associated Press that some of the material posted online - pictures of teenage girls in their swimsuits - related to an ongoing investigation, which he declined to discuss further.

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