An intelligence website that provides apps and facial recognition technologies used by law enforcement was hacked on Sunday.
ODIN Intelligence took on a completely different look on the home page of its website just before it was taken down. Asterisks spelled out the acronym"ACAB," known as"all cops are b******s," according to a screenshot taken by TechCrunch. Below, a caption clarified it was directed at"all cops.
The hacker's message went on to claim that “all data and backups have been shredded” among three archive file that totaled more than 16 gigabytes of data. This comes four days after a report that an app produced by the company, SweepWizard, had leaked confidential information regarding police raids. The app is used by department to help organize raids involving large swaths of officers. Over many years, the app had published geographic coordinates of suspects’ homes, the times and locations of raids, demographics, contact information, and occasionally even suspects’ Social Security numbers freely on the internet.
As a result, ODIN founder and chief executive Erik McCauley was quoted as largely dismissing the report, in a quotation left on the homepage by the hackers.ODIN also provides a service called SONAR, or the Sex Offender Notification and Registration system which helps departments manage their sex offender registries. It also offers facial recognition technology to help officers identify alleged offenders.ODIN did not respond to the Washington Examiner's request for comment.
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