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Information from Hacking Team - 22 July 2015
July 22, 2015 at 6:29 AM
Eric Rabe e.rabe@hackingteam.com

We are providing this information at www.hackingteam.com in response to various questions and commentary since the attack on Hacking
Team was revealed on July 6. It is for your immediate use.
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Eric

Eric Rabe
Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
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e.rabe@hackingteam.com

News Release
July 22, 2015

Statement from Hacking Team
The single fact not generally covered by news media is this: there is only one violation of law in
this entire episode, and that one is the criminal attack on Hacking Team. The truth is that the
company itself has operated within the law and all regulation at all times.
However, commentators dislike the fact that strong tools are needed to fight crime and
terrorism, and Hacking Team provides them. So the company is being treated as the offender,
and the criminals who attacked the company are not. Had a media company been attacked as
Hacking Team has been, the press would be outraged.
Here are the facts:
Hacking Team was the victim of a criminal act or acts sometime before July 6. The
attackers stole and then exposed via the Internet company proprietary information as well
as personal information of our employees and even some information about our clients.
Data from investigations conducted by Hacking Team clients was not exposed during the
attack. Such information is only maintained on the systems of clients, and cannot be
accessed by Hacking Team.
The criminals exposed some of our source code to Internet users, but by now the exposed
system code is obsolete because of universal ability to detect it. However, important
elements of our source code were not compromised in this attack, and remain undisclosed
and protected.

 The company has always sold strictly within the law and regulation as it applied at the time
any sale was made. That is true of reported sales to Ethiopia, Sudan, Russia, South Korea
and all other countries.
There have been reports that our software contained some sort of “backdoor” that
permitted Hacking Team insight into the operations of our clients or the ability to disable
their software. This is not true. No such backdoors were ever present, and clients have
been permitted to examine the source code to reassure themselves of this fact.
Hacking Team has not been involved in any program to use airborne drones as has been
reported.

100% Compliance with laws and regulations
Hacking Team has been accused of selling technology to various countries at a time that such
sales were banned. This is not true. In the case of every sale, Hacking Team has complied
with regulations in effect at the time of the sales.

Today the company complies with new

regulation developed in 2014 and enacted in January 2015. Under this new regulation, Italy
reviews all sales of Hacking Team technology in accordance with European Union and
Wassenaar Arrangement requirements.
The sale of “weapons” have been banned to certain countries. Hacking Team technology has
never been categorized as a weapon. At the time of the company’s only sale to Sudan in 2012,
the HT technology was not classified as a weapon, arms or even dual use.
In fact, it is only recently that has Hacking Team technology been categorized under the
Wassenaar Arrangement as a “dual use technology” that could be used for both civil and
military purposes. Dual use technologies are regulated separately from weapon technologies.
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For further information:
Eric Rabe, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, +39 337 1143876
info@hackingteam.com