Articles Tagged with anonymous

Rehtaeh Parsons Suicide Sparks Social Outcry, Appeal To Anonymous

Rehtaeh Parsons suicide

Rehtaeh Parsons’ suicide has caused a massive outpouring of grief as well as a call for justice on social media including an apparent appeal to the Internet hactivist group known as Anonymous. Parsons is remembered as a beautiful and happy-go-lucky girl whose life was devastated by a gang rape and eventual bullying from her peers…. Read more »

Anonymous Hacks North Korean Website, Steals 15,000 User Profiles

Anonymous Hacks North Korea

The hacker collective Anonymous has managed to successfully hack into the Chinese-hosted North Korean news site Uriminzokkiri.com. The group walked away with 15,000 user records including user names, e-mail addresses, birth dates, and hashed passwords. After announcing the hack, Anonymous displayed the personal information for six users, three from Korea and three from China. One… Read more »

Pakistani Hackers Take Down Israeli Groupon, Leave Anti-Semitic Message

Groupon Israel

The Israeli website Groupon.co.il was hacked today by a team of Pakistani hackers. The hackers are waging a cyber war against Israel for their airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. The hackers, who are loosely affiliated with famed hacker group Anonymous, say they are going to take down thousands of Israeli sites until the confrontation is… Read more »

Facebook To Be Targeted By Anonymous On Guy Fawkes Day

Facebook to be attacked on Monday by Anonymous

Hacktivist group Anonymous is planning to attack social network giant Facebook on Monday. The group is rumored to be staging the hacking attempt on Guy Fawkes Day to support more than 1,000 jobs being cut by social gaming network Zynga. The gaming company is one of Facebook’s many profit drivers but has come under increasing… Read more »

Anonymous Threatens Zynga Over Treatment Of Employees

Anonymous Threatens Zynga Over Employee Abuse

The feared hacker confederation, Anonymous, threatened social gaming giant Zynga over what the group calls “outrageous treatment of employees and actions against many developers.” The post on the hacker’s forum announced the launch of Operation maZYNGA against the troubled company. Anonymous revealed the “release of the confidential documents leaked from the executives of Zynga” and… Read more »

‘Anonymous’ Attacks Shell, Exxon And BP Over Melting Polar Caps

Anonymous Attacks Oil Producers

Hacktivist group Anonymous on Monday announced that it had stolen more than 1,000 email credentials from employees at five multinational oil companies including Shell, Exxon and BP. The group then took those email credentials and dumped them online. Also targeted in the attack were Russian oil firms Gazprom and Rosneft. Anonymous claims the attack was… Read more »