Two weeks ago, the same faction hacked into the LA County Sherriff’s databases, gaining access to “the names and addresses of over 1000 officers, over fifteen thousand police warrants, hundreds of thousands of court summons, over forty thousand social security numbers of citizens…anonymous tips of criminal informants pertaining to narcotics, criminal informant information and thousands of online police reports.”
It’s been a busy news week for Anonymous. The hacker collective fueling the Occupy movement openly declared war on the United States earlier in the week, just as thousands of emails obtained through their Christmas hack of global intelligence think tank Stratfor were dumped to Wikileaks and splattered across front page news.
And on Friday, Anonymous decided to attack one of America’s most basic freedoms – religion.
But the week was not all back pats and blue ribbons for the hacktivists. It seems some in America are finally fighting back against the misguided anarchy that is Anonymous.
Earlier this year, the hacking collective attacked numerous government and recording industry websites, including the Department of Justice, the FBI, Recording Industry Association of America and UniversalMusic.com. The coordinated distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks were in response to the Department of Justice investigation into content sharing website Megaupload.com.
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