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that he’s stepping down in order to help the company regain its reputation and to start improving his own.
Three weeks ago, his promise to expose the names of Anonymous members drew an attack that yielded more than 50,000 HBGary Federal e-mails that the group posted on the Internet.
The group also detailed publicly how it exploited weak passwords and unpatched servers to crack the network, then used information on passwords it gleaned to break into the company’s Gmail accounts.
Since then a string of stories about the content of the stolen e-mails has brought the company’s business practices into question.