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FBI Hack news on Hackernews is Fake

136 points by abhishekdelta ↗ HN
The news (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4677527) currently on top in HN is a fake one. It was an old FBI hack by CyberZeist that happened in June 2012. Here's the real news url:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/CyberZeist-Claims-to-Have-Gained-Access-to-Hundreds-of-Federal-Accounts-276384.shtml

And here's the original url of the hack details:

http://leakster.net/leaks/fbimail

It seems someone simply copy-pasted the old stuff to make it look like a new hack by THA, (or may be they themselves did it for publicity?).

EDIT: Good news, the fake post is dead now. FTR http://pastebin.com/BjZMZV63

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Dylan16807
Wait, is it fake or is it real but old and repackaged?

Why did you make this a self post instead of a comment?

enraged_camel
Presumably because it would have been buried among the hundred or so other comments in there?
abhishekdelta
Its "Fake" in the context of the original post's claims.

And FYI I did post a comment at-first but hardly anyone noticed it (that includes you too).. probably because the original post already had over a 90 comments and people didn't bother to go through all of them.

And I could already find some online websites and tech news blogs starting to pick this news up from here and spread it on the internet. This kind of news spreads so virally! So I made a post out of it so that people notice it. And they did. Mission accomplished :)

brokenparser
I cannot stand for this and hereby demand the FBI to be hacked for real.
abhishekdelta
It did get hacked, but a couple of months ago.
brokenparser
I had sex a couple of months ago, but that's not very satisfactory today.
fluxon
I had pie a couple of months ago. I still want pie.