Anonymous: Data from 407 surveillance cameras on the streets of Tehran was hacked
The hacking group Anonymous says it has hacked hundreds of surveillance cameras in Tehran and disabled them in support of the protests in Iran.
Since the beginning of the current protests in Iran, this group has launched widespread cyberattacks against the websites of the Islamic Republic's government, including hacking the websites of the ministries of oil, economy and finance, and culture and Islamic guidance.
The Anonymous Twitter account announced on Sunday evening that it had hacked "the complete data of 407 surveillance cameras across Tehran," because these cameras were helping the Islamic Republic suppress protests.
Anonymous added that "by disabling these cameras, it is in every way providing the greatest help to the freedom-loving people of Iran."
The tweet is also accompanied by an image of a list of cameras in Tehran that Anonymous says it hacked, including the cameras of "Azadi-Behboudi", "Azadi-Tohid", "Shariati-Sadr", "Quds Square" and "Valiasr-Pasian".
This is not the first time Anonymous has reported hacking of surveillance cameras in Iran.
In late September, this hacking group announced that, in addition to websites related to Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Republic, and the presidency, it had also hacked more than a thousand CCTV cameras inside Iran.
In early October, Anonymous hacked the website of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, exposing some of the representatives' details, including their mobile phone numbers, and urged Iranian protesters to contact the representatives and ask "why they support the dictator."
A few days later, the group's hackers managed to call a large number of users to demonstrate against the Islamic Republic in a message in Persian by hacking the notification extension of "Najwa", a company providing notification services in Iran.
Many online stores and some government news agencies are customers of Najwa's services.
In addition to Anonymous, other hacking groups have also hacked surveillance cameras in Iran in recent months and years.
In mid-June, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, one of the Islamic Republic's opposition groups abroad, announced that members of this organization, from a group called "Uprising to Overthrow," had hacked and made inaccessible more than five thousand surveillance cameras in Tehran Municipality.
Last year, a cyber group called "Justice Ali" hacked into Evin Prison's security cameras and published images showing prison guards mistreating prisoners.
While Mohammad Mehdi Haj Mohammadi, the then head of the Iranian Prisons Organization, confirmed the authenticity of the published images and apologized for these "unacceptable behaviors," Mohammad Mossadegh, the first deputy head of Iran's judiciary, said that many of the images showing the torture, mistreatment, and beating of prisoners in Evin Prison were "montages and have nothing to do with the prison at all."
Also, despite promises made to prosecute those responsible for torturing prisoners, no report of their possible prosecution has been published so far.
Source: Radio Farda
