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The law firm’s work with many government agencies meant Home Affairs and the AFP were affected, with the data made available on the dark web.
The spyware firm Hacking Team had already developed tools to track Bitcoin transactions by January of 2014.
Hacking Team, 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.
NSA had access to North Korea’s computer networks, supporting the U.S. claim that it was able to track the Sony Pictures hack back to NK.
