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What is the Anonymous network?
1. Anonymous is an international network of cyberactivists who claim to have hacked into organisations such as the Church of Scientology and electronics giant Sony.
2. The network has also taken down the sites of several US government agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to protest against the shutdown of file-sharing site Megaupload.
3. It is a group without a central structure, meaning it has no leaders or core members. Members could be anyone.
4 It originated in 2003 from the website 4chan, an image forum where people can share pictures anonymously. Anonymous made it to No. 36 on Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People list in 2012.
Major attacks overseas
• A 12-year-old boy in Montreal, Canada, pleaded guilty last month to hacking into several government and police websites under the banner of Anonymous. The boy said he hacked the websites of the Montreal police. Quebec Institute of Public Health, and the Chilean government, among other, and traded information with Anonymous members for video games.
• Lauri Love, 28, from England, UK, was charged in a US court last Monday 28th October 2013 for hacking into computers belonging to the US government and military, stealing sensitive data and causing damage that cost the institutions millions of dollars. Computer systems he hacked into include the army, the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
• Poland's economy ministry was hacked by a group claiming to be from Anonymous during October. Documents such as visa requests, e-mails between ministry officials and login and password data were taken.
• Hackers targeting software company Adobe Systems in October and got a hold of data belonging to 38 million customers, including credit card details and part of the source-code for its products.
• A traffic control system in a tunnel in the city of Haifa, Israel, was hit by a cyberattack in September. The area was shut down for eight hours, causing massive traffic congestion in the city.
What is the Anonymous network?
1. Anonymous is an international network of cyberactivists who claim to have hacked into organisations such as the Church of Scientology and electronics giant Sony.
2. The network has also taken down the sites of several US government agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to protest against the shutdown of file-sharing site Megaupload.
3. It is a group without a central structure, meaning it has no leaders or core members. Members could be anyone.
4 It originated in 2003 from the website 4chan, an image forum where people can share pictures anonymously. Anonymous made it to No. 36 on Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People list in 2012.
Major attacks overseas
• A 12-year-old boy in Montreal, Canada, pleaded guilty last month to hacking into several government and police websites under the banner of Anonymous. The boy said he hacked the websites of the Montreal police. Quebec Institute of Public Health, and the Chilean government, among other, and traded information with Anonymous members for video games.
• Lauri Love, 28, from England, UK, was charged in a US court last Monday 28th October 2013 for hacking into computers belonging to the US government and military, stealing sensitive data and causing damage that cost the institutions millions of dollars. Computer systems he hacked into include the army, the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
• Poland's economy ministry was hacked by a group claiming to be from Anonymous during October. Documents such as visa requests, e-mails between ministry officials and login and password data were taken.
• Hackers targeting software company Adobe Systems in October and got a hold of data belonging to 38 million customers, including credit card details and part of the source-code for its products.
• A traffic control system in a tunnel in the city of Haifa, Israel, was hit by a cyberattack in September. The area was shut down for eight hours, causing massive traffic congestion in the city.
