"Find Professional Hackers For Hire"
Just when government and intelligence agencies are trying to curb illegal online activities, and organizations are spending millions to ensure safety, a group of individuals launch a website that claims to offer "ethical hacking" services.
The website - Hacker's List - is just three months old but has been flooding with more than 500 hacking jobs, waiting for a successful hacker.
The website works like every other freelancing sites - customer's payment is held in escrow and is released upon on completion of the project and the site charges a fee on offered project. The Hacker's List offers AES-256 bit encryption, keeping both the hackers and the posters completely anonymous.
The site (or the owners of it) believe that hiring a hacker should be as easy as hiring other professionals over the Internet so it provides the services of "trustworthy professional hackers."
The site is registered in New Zealand. It contains a 10-page terms and conditions section in which most attention grabbing information is that users are not allowed to "use the service for any illegal purposes."
The jobs offered on Hacker's List range from $100 to $5000 and hourly rate of hackers are from $28 to $300.
Some sample projects are: a women from California, offering $500 to the hacker who can successfully hack into the Gmail and Facebook accounts of her boyfriend under the suspicion that he's cheating on her.
Another man from Sweden wants access to his landlord's website and is offering $2,000 to do it.
Interestingly there are also many tasks that ask hackers to break into school's website and change grades.
However, everyone is asking the same question - is the website legal?
"Hackers for hire can permit non-technical individuals to launch cyber attacks with a degree of deniability, lowering the barriers to entry for online crime," said Thomas G.A. Brown, former chief of the computer and intellectual property crime unit of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan, according to TechTimes.
