In a report in February, US cyber security firm Mandiant said that it had linked hundreds of data breaches since 2004 to a Chinese hacking team it had traced to the site of a military unit in Shanghai.

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So much so, the groups Anonymous and KnightSec claimed credit for hacking a team fan site not once, but twice, and have called for an IRL march on the local courthouse at 1 p.m. local time, Sat.

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What if in an afternoon of hacking you could uncover which team member is secretly a social media genius?

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In a blog post Monday evening, Desautels laid out a recent hacking operation that his SNOsoft research team was hired to perform on a bank client.

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Further, he is reputed to be a micromanager and with a scandal whose roots go back several years, it is unlikely that he was unaware of the hacking or the fact that his team, the government and the police were in cahoots.

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The Dev Team, whose research was instrumental in Hotz's initial hacking of the iPhone's hardware, isn't the first to offer a software-only unlock.

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The case has attracted the attention of bloggers and even the loosely organized hacking group Anonymous, which have questioned everything from the behavior of the football team to the integrity of the investigation.

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Southwark Crown Court heard that one of her team was asked to carry out financial investigations as part of a Scotland Yard inquiry into phone hacking, Operation Varec.

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