‘We did US government a favor by exposing their security flaws’ – hacker on FBI and DHS employees’ information leak

‘A hacker from the group that leaked the contact information of thousands of FBI and DHS employees says he did the US government a favor, as the breach exposed deep flaws in US national security and prompted these them to finally be addressed.
“The fact that [US authorities] think five people under 30 did this [hack], imagine what a foreign nation could do. The group exposed how vulnerable our government is,” Justin Gray Liverman said in an interview to Sputnik news agency.
“The intent wasn’t to put any lives in danger, just expose these flaws and outdated government cyber security practices – or lack thereof.”’
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