Last year, a hacker with the nickname “PhineasFisher” breached the controversial company surveillance tool developer Gamma International, a British-German company that sells the FinFisher spyware software. It then leaked over 40GB of data from the company, which is criticized for selling such software to oppressive governments.
Apparently the same hacker took responsibility for the breach Hacking Team, an Italian tech company that sells a similar product called the Galileo Remote Controlled System.
"I am the same person."
On Sunday evening, the Motherboard spoke with him while he was in charge of the Twitter account of the Hacking Team via an instant message.
Initially, PhineasFisher responded with sarcasm, saying that he was willing to chat because "we featured his latest story so well!", referring to a recent story written by the company's CEO, who claim that he is able to “break” the Dark Web.
But then he claimed to be PhineasFisher. To prove it, he told me he would use the account which he used last year to promote the FinFisher hack.
"I'm the same person," he said shortly after from his PhineasFisher account, which had been inactive for a year.
The hacker, however, refused to answer any questions.
