The recent overflow of incidents in the cybersecurity front managed to draw a lot of media attention to the topic, as well as law enforcement agencies going after the hackers. Members of Anonymous and the now disbanded Lulz Security (that has spun off to stir the AntiSec movement) have been the main targets of this crackdown.

The London Metropolitan Police arrested a teen whom they suspected to be Topiary a while back, one of the main figures in the hacktivist group LulzSec. 18-year old Jake Davis was released on bail earlier this month, following some speculation over whether or not he is in the fact the LulzSec spokesman.

Now, AntiSec fired back. Today the hackers released the full batch of local law enforcement information, about 10GB worth, they obtained via the July 31 hacking of Arkansas-based Brooks-Jeffrey Marketing.

From IBTimes.com:

“The leaked data contain hundreds of emails, personal information about officers, police training videos, the contents of insecure anonymous tip systems, and over 300 mail accounts across 56 law enforcement domains.“

The release contained social security numbers, officers’ home addresses and credit card information, among other things. The hackers reportedly used a backdoor to obtain the data, rather than the fairly simpler techniques that were used to carry out attacks against companies such as Sony.

According to the manifesto accompanying the release, this latest breach is more a protest, in addition to being an open-call to other hackers, than it is a retaliation against the arrests. The Topiary case is just one of several, including an earlier arrest by New Scotland Yard and Essex Police, and an FBI search of a family home in Hamilton, Ohio.

In addition to individual arrests and interrogations, there have been more substantial steps carried out against in the past. That includes 16 U.S. arrests all in the same span.