Hackers Post BART Police Officers' Private Information

This is not the first time hackers, who claim to be from Anonymous, have harassed BART. Previously this week members of the group hacked into a BART website and released user names, addresses and phone numbers of more than 2,000 BART customers.

Anonymous made some more trouble this week by posting the names, home addresses, email addresses and passwords of 102 police officers who work for San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) agency.

This is not the first time hackers, who claim to be from Anonymous, have harassed BART. Previously this week members of the group hacked into a BART website and released user names, addresses and phone numbers of more than 2,000 BART customers.

These harassments are apparently an act of vengeance because BART took precautions by temporarily cutting off underground cell phone service to commuters last Thursday.

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