How Hacking Team got hacked

On Friday, the self-described black hat hacker who claimed responsibility for the Hacking Team dump last year, and who goes by the handle "Phineas Phisher," published the technical details of how he pulled off the caper—and encouraged others to follow his example.
The apparently bilingual hacker originally published the details
in Spanish—"just having some fun trolling the English speaking internet," he posted on Reddit—but subsequently translated the document into English.
How the hack went down The hacker says that he discarded the idea of spear-phishing Hacking Team, writing that even though the technique is "responsible for the majority of hacks these days... I didn't want to try to spear phish Hacking Team, as their whole business is helping governments spear phish their opponents, so they'd be much more likely to recognise and investigate a spear phishing attempt."