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The FBI Spent $775K on Hacking Team’s Spy Tools Since 2011

Posted on July 6, 2015June 26, 2025 by Dissent

Joseph Cox reports:

The FBI is one of the clients who bought hacking software from the private Italian spying agency Hacking Team, which was itself the victim of a recent hack. It’s long been suspected that the FBI used Hacking Team’s tools, but with the publication yesterday of internal documents, invoices, emails and even product source code from the company, we now have the first concrete evidence that this is true.

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