Last year, a hacker nicknamed "PhineasFisher" broke into the controversial surveillance tool development company Gamma International, a British-German company that sells FinFisher spyware. It then leaked more than 40GB of data to the company, which has been criticized for selling such software to oppressive governments.
The same hacker apparently claimed responsibility for the breach of Hacking Team, an Italian tech company that sells a similar product called Remote controlled System Galileo.
"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 sarcastically, saying that he was willing to chat, because "we showed his latest story so well!", Referring to a recent story written by the CEO of the company and 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 he used last year to promote 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.
