NSA offshoot ‘The Equation Group’ has been hacked

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by Sindy Cator on August 15, 2016 at 5:54 pm

The ‘Equation Group,’ a hacker collective believed to be working on behalf of the NSA, has reportedly been hacked. A group calling itself ‘The Shadow Brokers’ claims to have digitally infiltrated Equation Group, and are starting to dump its data online. So far, it seems like a bunch of code, but if Equation Group was working for the NSA — look out. If you’re looking for the data, GitHub has already disabled the Equation Group’s repo, which Gizmodo points out was actually more of a Bitcoin auction for whatever data it grabbed. It was the only repo listed under the…