A powerful hacking company that sells malware and infectious spying software exclusively to governments has itself been hacked. It's been revealed that the client list includes some of the most repressive regimes in the world, along with several US government agencies.

Hacking Team is based in Milan, Italy and specializes in software that "…allows users to take remote control of suspects' computers, recording their calls, emails, keystrokes and even activating their cameras."

Of course the company advertises this as a tool for "fighting crime" when in reality it is used to spy on anyone the client government considers a dissident. Hacking Team is one of five companies designated as "Corporate Enemies of the Internet" in a 2013 report from Reporters Without Borders, describing them as "digital era mercenaries."

"Their products have been or are being used to commit violations of human rights and freedom of information. If these companies decided to sell to authoritarian regimes, they must have known that their products could be used to spy on journalists, dissidents and netizens."

While Hacking Team claims to do business with only respectable countries, the leaked documents show that, in fact, any government is fair game. Their customers include Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan.

Ethiopia, who is known to surveil and censor its journalists and dissidents was billed $1 million by Hacking Team for its Remote Control System (RCS), featured in the company's advertisement here.