Interesting idea. Though the FBI's denial doesn't mean much, as it's exactly what they'd do in this situation whether they had obtained the data or not. Suppos

Interesting idea. Though the FBI's denial doesn't mean much, as it's exactly what they'd do in this situation whether they had obtained the data or not. Supposedly the guy whose laptop the data was hacked from was a DefCon attendee, so I guess it is possible that he cracked some database and got the data himself, unrelated to any FBI operation. But, of course, that's precisely what the FBI might want us to think if this data was widely distributed and they probably shouldn't have had it in the first place. It also doesn't explain the connection to NCFTA. And of course it's possible the AntiSec hackers obtained it completely on their own and tried to connect it to the FBI afterwards.