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| Thread ID: 122916 | 2012-01-20 14:55:00 | While NZ Wuz Sleeping - Anonymous Counter-Attack For Megaupload.com | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1255251 | 2012-01-20 14:55:00 | Anonymous says it is in the process of staging its "largest attack ever" -- more than 5,000 loosely associated hackers taking down websites belonging to government and recording industry organizations in response to Thursday's shutdown of the file-sharing site Megaupload.com. The Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against Megaupload.com on Thursday, arresting its founder -- Kim Dotcom, formerly known as Kim Schmitz -- in New Zealand and charging him and at least five other company executives with violating privacy laws. In response, the hacker collective known as Anonymous announced a collaborative attack against government and recording industry websites, successfully taking down the site of the DOJ (Department of Justice) -- which coordinated the case against Megaupload -- and the (RIAA) Recording Industry Association of America. As of 4 p.m. Pacific time, Justice.gov and RIAA.org were failing to load, along with other stated targets such as UniversalMusic.com. Anonymous said on a Twitter account it has used regularly -- @YourAnonNews -- that the assault is "The Largest Attack Ever by Anonymous -- 5,635 People Confirmed Using #LOIC to Bring Down Sites!" In other messages, the group said it was aiming to take down more sites throughout the night. Members of Anonymous posted a statement to file-hosting site Pastebin.com late Thursday afternoon, according to the Twitter feed. The statement makes reference to the Megaupload arrests and indictment, and reiterates the members' earlier statement that they were "launching our largest attack ever on government and music industry sites." The statement provides a list of the sites targeted by the effort: justice.gov, universalmusic.com, riaa.org, mpaa.org, copyright.gov, hadopi.fr, wmg.com, usdoj.gov, bmi.com and fbi.gov. Many of the sites named in the statement were still managing to load at times late Thursday afternoon, though in a slow fashion and with mixed results as to the content, including the home pages of the FBI, the Motion Picture Association of America and music publishing company BMI. In a statement, the Department of Justice acknowledged that its website faced service problems and said it was approaching the issue as if it was the result of an intentional disruption.. |
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| 1255252 | 2012-01-20 17:43:00 | Ayup. That's why the RIAA website, among others, have been down for ~ 24 hours now :D | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1255253 | 2012-01-20 19:20:00 | So awesome! Cyberwars! |
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| 1255254 | 2012-01-20 19:21:00 | RIAA site is down? Who would notice? | johcar (6283) | ||
| 1255255 | 2012-01-20 20:09:00 | . . . or care . Of course, the RIAA site won't have backups, that would be copying . . . | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1255256 | 2012-01-20 20:14:00 | In a statement, the Department of Justice acknowledged that its website faced service problems and said it was approaching the issue as if it was the result of an intentional disruption . "as if it was"??? . . . Um, hello, someone want to inform these wombles it IS intentional disruption by 5600+ people/systems . |
Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1255257 | 2012-01-20 22:19:00 | . The Department of Justice and FBI sites are back up today after being targeted yesterday by hacker group Anonymous in retaliation for the takedown of Megaupload . com, a file-sharing site the U . S . government says enables online piracy . However, Universal Music Group’s site, another target, remains inaccessible this morning . The shutdown of Megaupload Thursday came a day after the Web went dark in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) . Anonymous vowed yesterday it would go after government and entertainment websites, saying on its YourAnonNews Twitter account: “You cannot censor the internet . You cannot subpoena a hashtag . You cannot arrest an idea . You CAN expect us #OpMegaupload . ” The New York Times reports that of the seven people named in the indictment, four have been arrested and three are at large . Those arrested include the founder of Hong Kong-based Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, a 37-year-old man the Telegraph describes as “a millionaire playboy” who has been called Germany’s “most notorious hacker . ” |
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| 1255258 | 2012-01-20 23:23:00 | Kim Dotcom, playboy? Big tub of playdough more like! | Renegade (16270) | ||
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