The FBI Spent $775K on Hacking Team’s Spy Tools Since 2011
Found on Wired on Monday, 06 July 2015
The FBI is one of the clients who bought hacking software from the private Italian spying agency Hacking Team, which was itself the victim of a recent hack.
The FBI is not in good company here. According to several spreadsheets within the hacked archive, which contain a list of Hacking Team’s customers, many of the other governments who bought the same software are repressive regimes, such as Sudan and Bahrain.
It's in the company of those countries for an obvious reason.