Hacking Team (HT), a controversial surveillance technology developer, was itself hacked over the weekend, PCWorld reports. The company has been criticized by digital activists in the past for allegedly supplying repressive governments with powerful surveillance technology, potentially used to spy on political dissenters, human rights activists and journalists. On Sunday, the company’s Twitter handle was hacked and included several screen shots of stolen data, including the user names and passwords of company executives. According to the report, approximately 400 gigabytes of data was stolen from the firm. The ACLU’s Christopher Soghoian said the data “dump includes an .xls spreadsheet listing every government client, when they first bought HT and revenue to date.”
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