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HBGary Federal

Disclosed Feb 6, 201115 years agoUnverified

Anonymous hacks HBGary, publishing tens of thousands of company emails

After HBGary Federal's CEO said he had identified Anonymous leaders, members of the group broke into HBGary's servers on February 5 and 6, 2011, published tens of thousands of emails and documents, destroyed data, defaced the website and took over the CEO's Twitter account.

What is known

People affectedNot stated in the sources we have
DisclosedFeb 6, 2011
AttackHacking
Data exposedMessages, Internal documents
SectorTech · US
StatusUnverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization

Sources

Source
Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack - Ars Technicaarstechnica.com · News
HBGary - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · News

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
ResearchtotalFeb 6, 2011
History of this record
  • 2026-09-25 · added · seed source

First seen 2026-09-25 (Research). Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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