What anonymous doesn't want you to see. A message from Anonymous to the the world. Anonymous Hacks Italian Police, Gives Us Déjà Vu [Mad Lib] I’m starting to get bored with writing this same story every few days, so here’s a Mad Lib that’ll help you feel my pain. Consider it an experiment in post-modern journalism. Earlier today, hackers associated with [high-profile hacker group] hacked into the servers of [organization] and compromised [number] gigabytes of data as revenge for [organization's anti-hacking security measures]. The stolen data is reported to contain personal information about employees of [organization] as well as information pertaining to [organization's] relationship with [other organizations or governments].
The leaked data, which is being distributed by torrent, also came with a strongly worded Pastebin statement from [high-profile hacker group] that states that [organizations's anti-hacking security measures] will do nothing to stop [high-profile hacking group] and may, in fact, encourage them. Word bank below. High-profile hacking group: Anonymous Organization: the Italian police’s Cybercrime division. Syria Swings Back At Anonymous, Defaces AnonPlus Website.
In retaliation for Anonymous’ hack of the Syrian defense ministry webpage, a Syrian hacking force alleged to be called the “Syrian Electronic Army” struck back at Anonymous. How, you ask? They defaced Anonymous’ pet project, the social network AnonPlus, by replacing the homepage with the message above, including gruesome pictures of burned and mutilated bodies. Anonymous’ original hack was said to be in support of protesters in Syria and left a message encouraging the Syrian military to revolt against President Bashar al-Assad instead of supporting his suppression of the protests. The counter-hack attributed the current Syrian violence, depicted in the gruesome photos, to Syrian demonstrators instead. The origin of the hackers was not mentioned on the defaced website. In response to your hacking to the website of the Syrian Ministry of Defence, the Syrian people have decided to purify the internet of [y]our pathetic website This isn’t the first time there has been hacker in-fighting.
Anonymous Hacks BART, Organizes Protest. After San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) fessed up to disrupting cell phone service in hopes of preventing a protest, they attracted some attention from your friendly, faceless, neighborhood hacking organization Anonymous. Naturally, the accusations of censorship flew and Anonymous threatened cyber-justice through hacking.
Sometime between noon and 6 p.m. yesterday, they followed through. The hack, in addition to defacing the site with signature Guy Fawkes masks, also turned up some internal documents including a User Info Database that contained addresses and phone numbers of thousands myBART users. Following the leak, Anonymous apologized to the non-BART employees, assuring them that “the only information that will be abused from this database is that of BART employees.” For BART, It’s not over yet: Anonymous is making the push for another real, in-person protest at the Civic Center station today (8/15) at 5 p.m. (via CNN) Anonymous Takes Down Massive Child Pornography Server. In a move that we can all get behind, hacker group Anonymous has announced that they have taken down a huge cache of child pornography and released 1,589 usernames of the website’s patrons. The action came as part of Operation Darknet, which targets illicit websites that are part of an unindexed and therefore unsearchable corner of the Internet.
The server in question is owned by Freedom Hosting, and apparently services over 40 child pornography websites. The largest of these, disturbingly called Lolita City, was said to contain over 100gb of child pornography. Interestingly, the Anonymous hack is extremely well documented. In two separate Pastebin posts, the hackers involved provide a timeline of events, as well as some of the methodologies they used in tracking and taking down the servers.
According to their timeline, the hackers first became aware of Lolita City while leading a related campaign against a portion of the Hidden Wiki which included links to child pornography.