Modern Day Robin Hood leaks Latvian Documents
I know you’re out there. I can feel you now. I know that you’re afraid… you’re afraid of us. You’re afraid of change. I don’t know the future. I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it’s going to begin. I’m going to hang up this phone, and then I’m going to show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.
Neo, “The Matrix”
Latvian officials are struggling to come to terms with a cyber “criminal” group that stole documents containing information about the countries waste of money.
They’d also love to find a member of the group known as Neo, who has been leaking the documents onto the web and showing the world where the money has been going.
Earlier this week “Neo” released data showing that the CEO of Riga’s heating company, Aris Zigurs, paid himself a 16,000 lat ($32,000) bonus last year – a hefty sum for a city-owned utility, especially at a time when many municipal workers have had their salaries slashed. Zigurs confirmed to Latvian media the data was accurate.
Neo also urged the police union to look into documents he leaked showing police salaries. In comments he posted via Twitter, Neo says:
“I call on the police union to analyze the data and determine whether the salary reform is fair and to continue the fight against crime.”
The government has of course called Neo and his groups motives into question, but they are gaining support. “Behind Neo’s mask is something more than flesh, behind this mask is an idea that hopefully no one in power can stop.”
Given the low security around these important documents, their theft can hardly be called a cyber attack, but the government and police are still desperate to catch the modern day Robin Hood.
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