Hacking Team S.r.l., an Italian firm that sold spyware tools to nation-states, incurred a large data breach over the week, with over 400 GB of emails, source code, and miscellaneous data released to the Internet at large via torrents.
The information from the breach confirmed long-standing accusations that until now were only supported by circumstantial evidence: Hacking Team was selling surveillance tools to authoritarian regimes around the world, many of which having records of human rights abuses.
