The business emails of Gregory D. Evans, a controversial figure in the information security industry, have been leaked online by a person who crticizes him and his company.
Gregory Evans, owner of a security firm called Ligatt Security, has made a lot of enemies among security professionals due to alleged unethical business practices and outright lying.
The self-proclaimed "World's No. 1 Hacker" is accused that his security book contains huge chunks of texts copied from manuals published by others online.
Armando Romeo, the owner of hackerscenter.com claims that as much as five chapters from Evans' 26-chapter book were copied verbatim from guides available on his website.
Even hacking superstar Kevin Mitnick had to deny a story made up by Evans, who claimed that he took him under his wing when they were both in prison.
Ligatt Security was also accused of taking open source and freely available tools, putting a custom graphical interface over them and presenting them as its own products.
Evans filed a lawsuit against several security professionals accusing them of purposely bashing his company in order to negatively affect the value of its penny stock.
At the end of January a judge ruled that subpoenas served by Ligatt's lawyers, seeking emails and passwords from the defendants to use as evidence, were exceedingly overbroad and violated Georgia laws.
On February 2, a link to an archive was posted on the Full Disclosure mailing list, along with a message claiming it contains the leaked inbox of gregoryevans [at] ligatt.com.
"Do not meddle in the affairs of hackers, for they are subtle and quick to anger," the message said. It also added that the release might expose other people's sensitive information.
"This release immediately follows with a small regret. Apologies much be given to all the bystanders, innocent or otherwise. Contained within his inbox is personal information of many, many people.
"Social security numbers, bank account routing numbers, credit reports, and other reports by private investigators. It was completely impractical to redact all of this information in any effective manner, and for that: sadness," the leaker wrote.
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