An undisclosed group of hackers operating under the alias of "The Shadow Brokers," has hacked another hacking group known as "Equation Group," which many security experts and firms believe is connected to the NSA.

The Shadow Brokers have set a price tag of 1 million Bitcoin for the compromised data, which is currently worth US$572 million. The Equation Group, which was unravelled by reputable cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs in 2015, is an alleged hacking organization under the NSA which handles confidential data related to its cybersecurity systems and cyber weapons.

WikiLeaks and Snowden on leaked data

The documents and files owned by the Equation Group include routers, firewalls, cyber weapons, and configuration disclosed in the documents released by Edward Snowden and WikiLeaks which further validates the identity of the Equation group.

WikiLeaks even announced their plans to release a collection of "cyber weapons" purportedly used by the National Security Agency.

Nicholas Weaver, a senior networking and security researcher at Berkeley's International Computer Science Institution, said:

"This archive appears to contain a large fraction of the NSA's implant framework for firewalls, including what appears to be several versions of different implants, server side utility scripts, and eight apparent exploits for a variety of targets."