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Updated | Hacking Team, a cybersecurity company that sells hacking software to law enforcement in dozens of countries, just got hacked itself. The Italian outfit’s security services use malware and vulnerabilities to tap into target computers and phones. A series of tweets from its compromised Twitter account (since deleted) shared samples from the 400-gigabyte trove of…

An Italian software surveillance company has been accused of designing and selling malware to countries accused of human rights abuses, after it suffered a data breach of its own. Hacking Team suffered the security lapse late Sunday evening according to a report by CSO Online , a news and analysis website focusing on information security. The…