BART Police Association Website Hacked

The website for BART's Police Officers Association was hacked Wednesday, and the personal information of 102 BART police officers was posted online, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Hackers obtained the names, addresses, email addresses and website passwords of the BART police officers, according to the article.

"We are deeply concerned about the safety and security of our employees and their families," said Sherwood Wakeman, BART's interim general manager, in a brief statement released on Wednesday. "We stand behind them and our customers who were the subject of an earlier attack. We are deeply troubled by these actions."

Anonymous, the protest group behind a previous hacking of the transit agency's "MyBART" promotional site, has not directly claimed responsibility for this latest hacking. "The leak today of BART officer data could be the work sanctioned by those who truly support anonymous, or agent provocateurs," Anonymous wrote on its Twitter account this morning. "Stay skeptical."

Pledging to act against BART after it turned off cell phone service within its downtown San Francisco BART stations on Aug. 11 to prevent protesters against the July 3 officer-involved shooting of Charles Hill from organizing, on Sunday and posted the information to its website.

Anonymous also coordinated a protest at BART's downtown San Francisco stations on Monday, causing the Civic Center, Montgomery, Powell and Embarcadero BART and Muni stations to be temporarily closed. 

On Monday, the union of 900 BART employees, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, released a statement executive management's handling of the recent incidents, stating, "The people who run BART have lost our confidence and are putting rider and employee safety at risk."