Anonymous hackers claim to have the data of 800 Million Cards, True?

A group calling itself ‘Anonymous Ukraine’ has claimed that it has hacked information related to more than 800 million US credit and debit cards including of those who are at highest seats in the US government and other politicians. A claim that has been doubted by experts both on its merit and enormity. The group’s main reason to do so seems to be to damage relations between US and Ukraine and is believed to be a Russian group. A message from the group stated the following on 24th of March:

“After the USA showed its true face when she unilaterally decides which of the peoples to live independently and who under the yoke of the Federal Reserve, we decided to show the world who is behind the future collapse of the American banking system. We own all the financial information of the Fed. And even more than you think.”

There are two companies, Risk Based Security and Battelle, which are investigating the breach and both say that they have not found any credible proof that the said 800 million accounts have bean breached. The data that hackers have provided as proof is incomplete, outdated and/or fraudulent.
The hacking group announced that it had released details of more than 25 million credit or debit cards. Battelle counted the right amount to be about 10.2 million and only 1% of it is complete. Rest of the accounts have either important details missing, such as full name or expiry date or validation codes, or the information is totally out dated as the expiration dates are from 2012-2014 rather than 2015-2016. The earlier dates of expiration suggests that the information was acquired from an older data dump. For all those credit or debit cards having all the correct and complete information, are believed to be gathered through fake banking websites using phishing, according to Ernest Hampson, technical director for Battelle’s cyber intelligence and counterintelligence group. He added about the threat and sophistication:

“These criminal organizations are acting more like armies every day. They have their own Intel, they’re gathering information about your employees, finding out who your friends are, and they can target attacks directly against you that make it unlikely that you would not click on that email.”
Interestingly, it seems that some of the users started noticing something fishy about these phishing sites and started entering messages like “Bite Me”, “your momma” or “get lost”.

While downloading the data from site, Battelle’s investigators also received a malware which appeared to have been hosted in Ukraine on a server owned by a Ukrainian. The investigators are closely monitoring the activities of Anonymous Ukraine. Hampson said:

“It’s really important to keep an eye on your enemy, find out what they’re interested in, what their motivation is, what their capabilities are.”

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Anonymous Philippines defaced Govt. websites for protest against Anti-CyberCrime Law

In the year 1987 when the late former President Corazon Aquino passed the bill 

that gave the Filipino people its right to freedom of speech and expression 

but in the year 2012 politicians and lawmakers came up of the bill

that kills the right of the people to freely express their opinion and 

freedom of speech through the internet.

The 1987 Constitution, Article III, Bill of Rights, Section 4 states,

"No law shall be passed abridging the freedom of speech, of expression, or of the press, 

or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances."

We, the citizens of the internet, fight again for this right and for this freedom. 

We fight not only for ourselves but also for others who stand with us against the Cyber Crime Law — 

bloggers, gamers or ordinary internet users.

This is our way to express and oppose the bill that may destroy the future of the internet in the Philippines. 

We believe that together we shall achieve the goal and the purpose of this cause. 

We shall stand and fight for the Filipino Netizens' right to freedom of speech and expression.

Protect our Right to Freedom of Expression!

We Are Anonymous

We Are Legion

We Do Not Forgive

We Do Not Forget

busabos | Anonymous #OccupyPhilippines | PrivateX | #pR.is0n3r

D4rkB1t | Phantom Hackers | Hf Blackrain | Pinoy Vendetta | Anonymous #Philippine CyberArmy

List of other Defaced Websites:

Office of the Vice President
http://www.ovp.gov.ph/

National Telecommunications Website
http://www.ntc.gov.ph/

PNP Command Center
http://noc.pnp.gov.ph/

Technical Education and Skills Development Authority
http://www.tesda11.com/admin/uploads/index.html

Philippine Anti-Piracy Team
http://www.papt.org.ph/

Southern Philippine Development Authority
http://www.spda.gov.ph/admin/web_pics/

DOST Information Network
http://scinet.dost.gov.ph/union/Downloads/

DOST Information Institute Library
http://library.stii.dost.gov.ph/

Philippine Embassy
http://www.philembassy-rome.net/

Mandaluyong Official Website
http://mandaluyong.gov.ph/

City of Cabuyao Website
http://www.cityofcabuyao.gov.ph/

Sto. Tomas Website
http://www.stotomas.gov.ph/index_.html

Davao Regional
http://drhtagum.gov.ph/

Municipality of Talibon, Bohol, Philippines
http://www.talibon-bohol.gov.ph/main/index.html

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Anonymous threat: GCHQ Website disrupted by DDoS

Tomorrow GCHQ’s website www.gchq.gov.uk was suffering from downtime and it could be a denial of service attack, some of the noticeable performance issues yesterday:
GCHQ stats
About GCHQ:
The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is a British intelligence agency responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance to the British government and armed forces.
Last Week, it was revelaed by the documents from the NSA Leaker Snowden’s documents that the British Spy Agency GCHQ used DDoS Attack against the Anonymous hackers during the operation Payback which was used to take down some high profile websites like: MasterCard, Visa, Amazon, Moneybookers, and PostFinance.
Upon searching more about the Snowden documets we find that DDoS Attacks are illegal in the UK under the Police and Justice Act 2006, yet the leaked secret slides shows that GCHQ may have used such techniques against Anonymous.

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Anonymous threatening to leak Singapore Govt. Employees’ details

Anonymous group of hackers targeting the Singapore Government, In a report published on ZDNet -writer ‘Ryan Huang’ writes that a small amount of data provided to them, hacktivists threatening to leak more data.
Actually, the data was stolen from a Singaporean security company that  “does much business with the government.”
Why hacktivists stolen the Data and threatening to leak ?
Leak is in the protest against the recent arrests of some Anonymous members, view report.
What is inside the Leak?

• Name
• Email Addresses
• Date of Birth
• Nationalities
• Phone Numbers
• Passport Numbers
• In the meantime, database for 10 individuals have been leaked.
• Data is said to be from the different organizations such as:
• Central Narcotics Bureau
• The Prison Service
• Immigration and Checkpoints Authority
• The National Water Agency
• The National Environment Agency
• The National Library Board
• The Ministry of Manpower

According to report by ZDNet- some of the information provided either outdated or inaccurate.
At Last, Anonymous hackers threaten to leak the details of thousands of people if Government doesn’t Justice.

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Tribute to Aaron Swartz: MIT website page hacked by Anonymous

Summary: belatedly evening Friday, January 10 the hacktivism unit Anonymous hacked as well as defaced MIT letting the organization know Anonymous will not disregard the catastrophic suicide of the hacker Aaron Swartz.
On the centenary of young hacker as well as digital activist Aaron Swartz’s bereavement, Anonymous has re-employed its Operation Last alternative to hack MIT’s website, captivating over the system for its Cogeneration scheme.
The website has been vandalized for one hour. The page is now titled THE DAY WE FIGHT BACK.
The disfigurement states “REMEMBER THE DATE WE FIGHT BACK REMEMBER” and continues as of this lettering, with the SSL-permitted description of the site forwarding to the site on load.
Reddit, Creative Commons in addition to Demand Progress co-originator Aaron Swartz entrusted suicide in New York City scheduled Friday, Jan. 11.
MIT until that time claimed to have cooperated a neutral responsibility in the tribunal of Aaron Swartz, on the other hand information later recommended that MIT likely took part in an active responsibility in the prosecution.
final weekend, his father Bob Swartz attributed in the widely-interpreted editorial Losing Aaron where a great deal ground was laid to put the guilt for the young hacker’s bereavement directly at the feet of MIT, which as an organization stated it would play a middle-of-the-road role — yet willfully helped the tribunal, alongside Swartz’s lady love at the time Quinn Norton.
The Operation Last Resort movement is retaliation for the bereavement, which many – as well as the Swartz family – suppose was a result of overzealous action by the Department of Justice as well as what the relations deemed a “bullying” use of out-of-date computer transgression laws.
Anonymous has expressed visitors who land resting on MIT’s Cogen website to the web page for “The Day We Brawl Back,” a remonstration on February 11, 2014 in opposition to surveillance.
“The Day We Fight Back” is a remonstration day in reputation of Aaron Swartz, in addition to to draw attention to the activist’s function in the victory above bring to an end on the Online Piracy Act. Participants take in the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Demand Progress, Fight for the Future, Mozilla, Reddit, and additionals.
Either unidentified is doing several pre-press for the occasion, or it is symptomatic of there might be added in store on February 11.
This is not the opening time Anonymous as well as its Operation Last alternative has hacked MIT in the forename of Aaron Swartz.
The original time was shortly subsequent to Swartz’s suicide taking place January 11, 2013, along with the subsequent hack lying on MIT — a huge humiliate happened on the day of January 22, 2013.
In the month of September 2012, Aaron Swartz was accused with thirteen reckonings of felony hacking following a July 2011 apprehend for allegedly grazing 4 million MIT credentials from the JSTOR online academic journal archive.
JSTOR’s educational paper database was freshly made in public available.
Swartz’s relatives issued tough statements after the catastrophe stating that they sensed MIT furthermore an overzealous subdivision of Justice Prosecution led to Swartz’s self-murder.
The initial hack on MIT’s official web page was claimed by unidentified and contrary to several of Anon’s other destructive hacks, the desperate hacktivists left a announcement calling for a modification to computer crime decrees and incorporated an apology to MIT for captivating over its site.
very last year, the Anonymous Operation Last resort movement was commenced with the transcribe of the centralized U.S. Sentencing Commission site on January 25, in addition to the allocation of what the Anonymous termed “warheads.”
Anonymous located links to encrypted folders mirrored on various web pages on the ussc.gov site. The contents of these records are still mysterious.

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LinkedIn files a lawsuit to unmask the anonymous hackers

LinkedIn has filled one lawsuit in order to identify the unidentified hackers who created several thousand fake accounts with the aim of scraping the profile data. As per the court documents, those defendants operated automated bots on the virtual computers which were rented from Amazon in order to harvest the details on social networking site for the professionals.
The lawyers for LinkedIn claimed that it cost $5000 to deal with those hackers-they filed one complaint with the Northern District of California Court after discovering the fake accounts.
In the court submission, LinkedIn said that Since May 2013, some unknown entities or persons employing several automated software programs or bots have registered several thousand fake LinkedIn member accounts and therefore they have copied or extracted data from the profile pages of numerous members.
This practice is popularly known as data scraping and it is explicitly barred by the user agreement of LinkedIn that prohibits the access to LinkedIn through spidering, scraping, crawling or by using any other data or technology to access the data without any express written consent of the LinkedIn members or LinkedIn.
Although, till now the identity of the hackers is unknown, as the hackers had used the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud it, but they are expecting that they would be able to identify those Doe Defendants by serving the third-party discovery on AWS.
While this thing was not clear what these hackers would do with these data, LinkedIn mentioned that irreparable and ongoing harm had caused. As per the complaint of LinkedIn, having several thousands of false profiles decreases the integrity and the accuracy of information on this website, causing possibly the legitimate users to become misled or confused.
LinkedIn said that the mission of this site is to connect the professionals of this world to make them more successful and productive. Therefore this company hosted the CVs of around 259 million members and a number of them are high-level executives.
Recruiters of the 90 of the Fortune 100 companies utilize the website to look for the prospective candidates.
Mike Small-the security analyst at Kuppinger Cole mentioned that the cloud services are quite cheap to build up, very powerful and quite easy to use. They mainly need one credit card to get the access. These features are quite attractive to the cyber criminals and hackers like as to the legitimate users.
The cloud services mainly have some extensive control in the place in order to prevent the use for the illegal or the illegitimate purposes and the cloud service that deals normally, forbid this particularly. The cyber criminals would require searching the way to cloak the identity while utilizing the public cloud service in this way.
This incident demonstrates all the difficulties faced in the world where both law and the law enforcement is organized geographically but the criminal activities that use the Internet cut across the boundaries.
LinkedIn spokesman, Mr. Richard George uttered that they are a members-first organization and they feel that they have the responsibility to protect that control that their members have more than the information that they use on LinkedIn.

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Microsoft websites went down because of Anonymous

Neowin’s reporting that most popular websites belonging to Microsoft services, including microsoft.com, outlook.com, msn.com, office365.com, Microsoft Developer Network, TechNet, SkyDrive, the Windows Store, sites hosted on Windows Azure, xbox.com and Xbox Live broke down.
The Redmond-based tech company has become unavailable on Nov 22, by getting complaints from its users who tried to access Microsoft’ services provided with a “Server not found” error. Later it became clear that the site went down because of attacks initiated by Anonymous group and launched as a part of Operation Killing Bay.
“A couple days ago a DDoS attack was launched at Japanese Microsoft (Domain) Websites and Servers. We are sorry to report that the Japanese Microsoft Websites and Servers did not go down as planned. Although something did go down. We took the pretty much the entire Microsoft domains down,” Anonymous said in their letter.
“We are investigating the root cause of the disruption and will”, the company said.
Operation Killing Bay also known as Taiji. It’s named after a small village in Japan called Taiji. Taiji came into readers’ minds as a place where amount of dolphins slaughter taking place frequently.
Although, Microsoft confirmed that all online services have been restored. And in a very “short statement” that the restoration experienced a lot of problems.

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A 12-year-old Anonymous hacker has been sentenced to 18 months probation

A 12-year-old Montreal hacker has been sentenced to 18 months probation. Youngest ever to face charges, he mutilated several provincial government websites and shared information in exchange in 2012.

A series of attacks targeted government-related websites under the auspices of “Operation Quebec” campaign.
There were two damaging operations held: denial-of-service attacks, in other cases, home pages were altered and data seized and traded.
It was reported that the boy was working for Anonymous, Internet activists’ network.
In spite a crime structure, judge appointed an easy punishment inclined to kid’s age and unawareness of his did. They “were not of a criminal but of a young man who couldn’t have known the extent of the consequences,” – he stated.
Three parties: the Montreal police, its employee credit union and the Quebec Institute of Public Health incurred a loss of $265,904.09.
This is not a first time when the Montreal youngster charged in hacking.
In 2000 serial denial-of-service attacks crippled the websites of Yahoo Inc., EBay, CNN, Dell and Amazon.com, that caused millions of dollars in losses.

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Anonymous takeover the Japanese govt. websites over dolphin hunt

A plethora of Japanese government websites hacked by the world-wide hackers group “Anonymous,” which is also famous for “hacking websites to bring out social change.”
Behind the Japanese government site hack, there is also a Social Change typo- Various Japanese govt. websites hacked:
Prime minister’s office
The Ministry of Agriculture
The Ministry of Forestry
The Ministry of Fisheries
The Ministry of Internal Affairs
Ministry of Communications
“STOP these slaughters IMMEDIATELY, or get ready to face the extent of our wrath,” an Online message which was being sent online to Japanese Government.
The hack was basically done to stop Dolphin slaughter, website reports.
Anonymous has 22 Japanese websites on their hit list.
Every year, Japanese whaling ships catch and often times brutally butcher up to 17,000 small whales, dolphins and porpoises (known collectively as smaller cetaceans) that are found along its coastlines, according to the international press. More than one million cetaceans have been killed in Japan’s waters in the past 70 years.
Despite the international criticism regarding Japan’s whaling method, the country says its whaling habits are a matter of tradition.

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Anonymous Philippines Defaced Several Government Websites for Protest

Greetings citizens of the Philippines. We are Anonymous.

We apologize for this inconvenience, but this is the only easiest way we could convey our message to you, 

our dear brothers and sisters who are tired of this cruelty and this false democracy, tired of this government

and the politicians who only think about themselves.

The government, in many ways, has failed its Filipino citizens.

We have been deprived of things which they have promised to give; what our late heroes have promised us to give. 

Let us remind the government that fairness, justice and freedom are more than words. They are perspectives. 

A march is happening, a revolution. A way to speak, a way to be heard.

On the fifth day of November, 2013, we will try to be a part of the history.

But of course there are those who do not want us to speak, and those who have doubts.

You can sleep, sit, go on with your everyday routine just like a herd of sheep and watch as the government laugh at you.

But if you see what we see, if you feel as we feel, and if you would seek as we seek... then we ask you to stand beside us,

this fifth of November outside the gates of Supreme Court and let us march our way to freedom - a freedom from the shackles

of the Government.

You have been called; and by watching, you have been chosen.

To the "incorrupt" officials of the government, we are challenging you!

Join us!

The Corrupt - Fear us.

The Honest - Support us.

The Heroic - Join us.

We are Anonymous.

We are ONE.

The government, you are NONE.

We are legion. 

On the 5th of November, Government - Hear and understand us, or EXPECT US!

List of Defaced Websites:

http://apalit.gov.ph/

http://magarao.gov.ph/

http://apalit.gov.ph/

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The best known Anonymous YouTube channel Terminated

The best known anonymous YouTube Channel named “AnonymousFrancophone“ has been deleted by YouTube—which consisted of more than 100 videos regarding the Anonymous hacking operations.

The account was used to announce Anonymous’ upcoming hacking operations and various types of press release.

That YouTube channel deleted due to repeated or severe violations of  Community Guidelines and/or claims of copyright infringement, but Anonymous calling them YouTube Censorship.

The same anonymous user, who owned that deleted YouTube account continuously tweeting on twitter about the deletion of account because of YouTube Censorship.

During a chat that Anonymous user said, they received only one warning last year and would have been happy to work with them to remove whatever content was objectionable, however, YouTube removed the Channel without any warning.

Deleted account has 29,300 subscribers and over 5 million views.

Anonymous tweeted “We Do Not Forget” along with a video uploaded on vimeo:

http://vimeo.com/75090233

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FBI arrests a suspicious Anonymous Hacker

McAllen- After a year of Investigation FBI arrested a man—said to be a member of Anonymous hackers, he is accused of trying to hack the Hidalgo country website.
Fidel Salinas Jr. was charged with accessing a protected computer without authorisation and recklessly causing damage and faces a prison sentence of one to five years.
Hidalgo Country website was hacked on Jan-5-2012, there were 14,000 illegal attempts were found to log on its server, attack compromised sensitive human resources and emergency alert data, caused slowness and latency for users, and keeping network administrators from accessing it for about half a day. After that FBI’s Cyber crimes agents were called to investigate the hack.
Access to the website was the result of a brute force SQL injection attack that official said caused more than $10,000 in damages.
That 14,000 attempts were traced by the FBI agents—they got the IP Address which was used in the attack and they tracked it to a house off Nolana Loop in Donna, according to the affidavit. The property owner said that her daughter’s boyfriend had moved into the house, and FBI agents seized various computers and other electronic equipment.

Salinas told FBI:
He used SQL injection techniques to access the website and had chatted with members of Anonymous.
He intended to alert the site’s network administrators.
He also claimed to have posted a Facebook comment aimed at Treviño that ended, in part, with the quote: “We do not forgive, we do not forget” (A Tagline which is commonly used by Anonymous hackers)
But the FBI recovered from Salinas’ computer hacking tools and an internet relay chat containing logs pertaining to the revived AntiSec movement, now affiliated with the Anonymous collective.

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Brazilian govt. issues arrest orders for owners of Anonymous Brazil’s Facebook pages

In July, Anonymous hackers announced The Biggest protest in Brazil against the govt. corruption, they scheduled the protest for September 7 (tomorrow) and before one day of the protest Brazilian government issues an order to arrest members of Anonymous pages in Brazil and masked protesters will be sent to the jail.
Posts are being shared on Facebook by some of the Anonymous members which reads:

URGENT #WARNING TO #ANONYMOUS FROM #BRAZIL
We Anonymous from #Brazil, especially brothers and sisters from Rio de Janeiro, we are being disenfranchised by our state government, supported by the Federal government, these worms are issuing arrest warrants for both brothers Black Bloc, and for administrators pages Anonymous, Anonymous Rio, AnonymousBr, and other pages, that fight against this government hypocritical, criminal and corrupt. After carrying out the mandates the administrators arrested were sent directly to a prison as if we were criminals, offenders, what we are not. Until now, seven administrators were arrested.
We are the people struggling for justice, probity, fairness and honesty in the actions of our politicians, several administrators of pages, we are at risk at any moment of being arrested.
Any help from our brothers and sisters will be welcome.

Please, share this information....;

Until now, Seven arrests have been made and govt. are hunting for more anonymous members.
One of the Anonymous hacker says:
The owners from this page were arrested: https://www.facebook.com/BlackBlocRJ and now they’re going after anons: https://www.facebook.com/anonymousrio
you can have a look of images of the documents issued by Brazilian govt.: “authorize the criminal identification of members of groups called black bloc, anonymous and anonymous Brazil” HERE.

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Anonymous press release out for #OpSyria; “We are with you Syrians” says anonymous

After the Chemical Attack in Syria, that incident has became most controversial in the world right now and world wide hackers group Anonymous announced their press release| video regarding #OpSyria.
Anonymous announced  to Syrian People that “We are with you in this war“.
The Press Release by Anonymous reads:

Anonymous has been actively involved and contributed towards the uprisings in Egypt, Lebanon and Tunisia. For far too long, we have witnessed the barbaric, unjust and brutal treatment of the Syrian people. Time and time again we have observed these war crimes. From the chemical weapons and scud missile attacks employed by Bashar al-Assad, to the growing number of questionable and violent actions taken by some of the opposing groups, it is clear that whoever the citizens may rally behind, their safety and security is ultimately transient and not guaranteed . The accumulation of war crimes has irritated our nest and the time has now come for us to take action.

Dictator Assad and elements within the Syrian Opposition, you now have the undivided attention of Anonymous. You are failing your country, you are failing your people, your country faces following the examples of your Egyptian, Lebanese and Tunisian counterparts. Our request is a simple one; cease fire immediately and stop the violence towards the innocent or you will feel our wrath.

To the people of Syria, know that Anonymous stands with you in this war against terror.

We vow to do everything we can to hinder war crimes played against you. We will raise awareness in every manner we can. We will assist you in putting an end to this carnage. We have put together the Anonymous Syria Care Package (Attached Documents) which contains instructions in Arabic and English that will aid you in areas of conflict.We encourage you to download this information, keep it on your person and share it with your fellow Syrians to the best of your ability.

We are with you in this war. No matter how alone and abandoned you feel, no matter how many atrocities you face – know that there are many of us working around the clock, concerned and attempting everything we can to catalyse change. We are oceans far from you, but closer than the jugular vein. We, together, can conquer adversity.

We are Anonymous.

We are Legion.

We do not Forgive.

We do not Forget.

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Take down – Million march cyber protest now aimed.

Distributed denial of attacks are now aimed to several government agencies as of 1 pm today : a cyber protest.
Hackers from pinoy vendetta urge netizens to participate in the said attack which in the moment claimed to have taken down more than 10 government websites
The Department of Finance, Department of Interior and Internal Interview, Department of Agrarian Reform, Department of Public Works and Highways, Quezon City Official website, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Treasury, Department of Energy, Deparment of Education, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the senate, customs and the presidential website.

Screenshot of a web service isup.me suggesting the presidential website is down.
A DDOS attack is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users.
As of press time, most of mentioned appears to be having problem displaying web errors like “Error 504 Gateway Timeout.”

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Anonymous announced to leak documents that would prove the Spanish government corruption

SPAIN: Today Anonymous hackers hacked the website of Noblejas Peoples Party (Toledo) because anonymous wants to reveal government corruption and this is not the first time when this website was hacked, anonymous also were over this website back in July this year.

The website was defaced today with a video with the title ‘Secret files part 2′. In the description you can read slogans like “ What has come to light, come to light ”or” People of Spain, stand up and fight. ”

Anonymous claims to reveal new documents that would prove the Spanish government corruption.

#opsecretfiles2 is the hashtag on twitter to be used to make some of these supposed revelations.

Anonymous already in the fight with Spain’s govt. from July this year, they hacked Spain’s People Party Website  (Partido Popular), which is the country’s governing party and leaked their Financial documents.

Specifically, hackers target Spanish politicians in terms of “you politician is working for the people, and seems not to understand that concept.”

The hacker group complains that “ the Spanish have virtually no health, education and work , if not social rights have been undermined by an ignorant government that only works for large corporations and for their own benefit. ”

Therefore, the group announced that “no one is going to take part in the fighting in the streets, but it will bring to light documents” in which demonstrate the relationship of the Executive “to drug traffickers , which exerted influence peddling with the judiciary, police chiefs and heads of customs “.

Noblejas Peoples Party website is still defaced and the date of new documents not disclosed till now that would prove the Spanish government corruption.

Here are the Two Videos by an Anonymous hacker uploaded to YouTube regarding the leaks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_M20FoneGI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w52c1kNx-VA

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Several Philippines Govt. websites hacked & defaced by Anonymous on the eve of “Million People March.”

MANILA, Philippines — The Latest News is coming from the Anonymous Headlines that anons hack several Philippines govt websites on the eve of the “Million People March.”

They hacked Official websites of:

National Historical Commission of the Philippines

Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino

Optical Media Board

The Municipality of Pikit

Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao

San Juan City

Talibon Bohol

Philippine Economic Zone Authority

Sugar Regulatory Administration

Directorate for Police Community Relations

Tabuk City

Police Regional Office 5

As we above said that this is done before Monday’s protest action against the public call a corruption-ridden pork barrel system.

According to protest organizers, the August 26 Luneta rally can be partly compared with the social media-spawned Arab Spring that spread information and unified motivations via digital protest.

Anonymous wrote on the defaced webpage:

We Appreciate the fact that you have now responded to the public clamor to abolish the PDAF

However, the alternative package of still allowing the Congressmen and Senators to

identify sponsored projects to be funded, albeit as line items in the annual budget,

continues to leave MONEY with grasp of conniving and corrupt public officials.

In effect, this merely shifted the timeframe upon when these projects are identified and approved.

Therefore, the PORK BARREL REMAINS!

Ending the message with: “We Pursue our call for you to complete Abolish the Pork barrel system let our legislator just legislate.”

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Amazon Fired Steubenville Hacker because he is Anonymous

The man who claimed responsibility for the leaks that drew national attention to the Steubenville rape case now says Amazon.com recently fired him because of his association with the loosely-affiliated network of “hacktivists” known as Anonymous.

Deric Lostutter, 26, told The Huffington Post that he began his job at a new Amazon call center in Winchester, Ky., earlier this month, but was fired after his supervisors discovered his home had been raided by the FBI in connection with the Steubenville case.

“They pulled out a list of online articles and asked for my side of the story, then escorted me off the property stating that even though i havnt [sic] been charged, i could no longer work there because it made them feel uncomfortable that i have a political affiliation with anonymous,” Lostutter told HuffPost in a text message.

Lostutter said he was told not to come back to work after his first day on the job and officially fired several days later.

Amazon did not return several requests for comment. Lostutter sent HuffPost a picture of his Amazon insurance card as a verification of employment.

Employers in Kentucky can hire and fire people as they like, as long as that reason isn't an illegal one (like racial or religious discrimination). Lostutter's legal options are limited, said Kurt Scharfenberger, a Louisville, Ky.-based attorney who specializes in labor law.

“If it’s alleged you’ve done some sort of misdeed, your employer may suspend or fire you,” Scharfenberger said. “It’s certainly not fair, but it is legal.”

“Unfortunately the law is pretty narrow when it comes to termination,” he added.

Lostutter, who also goes by the screen name KYAnonymous, took credit in an interview with HuffPost for leaking "all the photos that the players had already posted then erased" in the Steubenville High School rape case, where two football players were ultimately found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl. A photo of the players carrying the victim while she was passed out, along with a video that showed a former Steubenville baseball player making jokes about raping a “dead” girl, helped draw widespread attention to the case and sparked outrage across the country. Lostutter said he had a hand in leaking the infamous video as well.

"The tweets, screenshots, Instagrams ... Pretty much everything you've seen in the media, that came through me," Lostutter told HuffPost in June. However, he noted, any images that went public were sent to him, and not the product of hacking.

FBI agents -- guns drawn -- raided Lostutter’s home in April. Agents took his laptop, flash drives, an external hard drive and two mobile phones, among other things.

According to Gawker’s Adrian Chen, the FBI targeted Lostutter in connection with the December 2012 hack of RollRedRoll.com, the fan site of the Steubenville High School football team, and the email account of its webmaster, James Parks. After the site was hacked, a video of Lostutter -- wearing a Guy Fawkes mask and threatening to disclose personal information of Steubenville football players if they didn’t apologize to the victim -- appeared on the website.

Although Lostutter gloated about the website hack during an interview with Chen -- but later asked Chen not to include that comment in his story -- he maintains he didn’t hack the site or email account. According to a report in The Herald Star, a man in Virginia Beach, Va., identified as BatCat, claimed responsibility for the hack.

Tor Ekeland, Lostutter’s lawyer who's representing him in the FBI investigation, told HuffPost that although there is a U.S. attorney assigned to his case in connection with the Steubenville fan site hacking, there is no indictment against Lostutter.

As for his firing from Amazon, Lostutter's next steps are unclear. He told HuffPost he started a new job on Friday, describing it only as an "IT consultant."

But it's not difficult to see why a company like Amazon, which handles sensitive customer information like credit card numbers and addresses and has a robust cloud computing business, might be hesitant to employ someone whose home was raided by the FBI in connection with hacking.

Lostutter said that he passed a drug test and background check before he was hired by Amazon, but it appears that the company didn't do a simple Google search before it brought him on. The FBI raid was covered extensively online.

"It’s not like I want anything from Amazon," Lostutter told HuffPost. "But I want to make it known that discrimination won’t be tolerated. We have rights just like anybody else has," he said, referring to members of Anonymous. "We’re not Al Qaeda. We’re not trying to destroy America and the American people. We’re the 99 percent.”

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FBI's claim that it dismantled Anonymous met with a massive data leak

The FBI has its collective foot in its mouth right about now.

On Wednesday, Austin P. Berglas, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s cyber division, gave an interview in which he boasted that the 2012 arrests of LulzSec members had "destroyed" the leadership of Anonymous, rendering it effectively neutralized.

He told the Huffington Post, "The movement is still there, and they're still yacking on Twitter and posting things, but you don't hear about these guys coming forward with those large breaches. It's just not happening, and that's because of the dismantlement of the largest players."

You can guess what happened next.

OpLastResort, the operation formerly dubbed OpAngel, and aimed at striking back at the government forces that drove Aaron Swartz to suicide, sprang back to life.

As the Global Post reported Wednesday night, OpLastResort began tweeting out links to an apparently hacked restaurant site, TheFederalGrill, uploading vast amounts of data apparently taken directly from FBI servers. Then they issued a challenge to readers and reporters:


(Actually that last one is almost certainly the old "take credit for the heck of it” trick. It might just fool some of the people, some of the time.)

Nonetheless, they do seem to have accessed FBI servers with recent data from the Regional Forensics Computer Laboratory (RFCL), and to have posted it as hidden PDF files and pages on the hacked site. The most recent data is from January of this year, although much is from last year. When asked on Twitter why that site, OpLastResort said there could be no better place to grill the Feds than the (apparently long-closed) Federal Grill. Because they are uploaded as PDFs rather than Web pages, they must be downloaded to be viewed, and one might hesitate before downloading hacked FBI files from Anonymous hosted on hacked websites.

If one were more cautious than a reporter, that is.

The documents include, for example, slides from a presentation in Orange County that includes the numbers of cases handled in the lab, the referring law enforcement agencies, resolutions, etc.

The hacktivists have a point: Clearly the arrests of LulzSec and AntiSec members, and the exposure of leader Sabu as an FBI collaborator, have not destroyed Anonymous. Rather, the arrests have instead taught them hard lessons about IP anonymizing and VPNs, about basic opsec strategies like not tweeting out successful hacks under the same username you used to make the hack in the first place, and about the risks of separation from the Hive. Remember, it was frustration with the anonymity and long lead times of Anonymous itself that led LulzSec, CabinCr3w, and other crews to break away from the collective.

Interestingly, a persistent rumor seems to indicate that this latest action may be the work of Sabu himself, perhaps contrite for the years of prison time his crew are currently serving or facing. One file released by OpLastResort is titled "When Sabu Met Michelle" and contains the apparent email for Michelle Obama, on whom Sabu had a very public crush.

We contacted three well-placed sources in Anonymous who confirmed the rumor, and one was willing to speak on the record. S/he told us that s/he and others believe, “It was too big and quick of project to not be Feds and bears Sabu signatures.” In other words, there’s no way a hack could have been organized and gotten to the heart of the FBI in only five or so hours. The files had to have been gathered previously, and just lain unused.

"He definitely has the same Lulz 9000 rhetoric. He's not stupid, but the most charitable info is that he's done all this under duress. OpLastResort is on about the capability of creating a fuckton of soiled underwear; producing a single really shit-disturbing document would ease a lot of minds.”

So the FBI presumably allowed him to have and leak the files, which are not tremendously damaging except in a propaganda sense. The most recent, after all, dates to January of this year. The $64,000 question is why.

Sabu’s sentencing for his role in LulzSec has been pushed back repeatedly because of his “continued cooperation”; the most recent delayed date was this morning. After Sabu's outing as a collaborator, it emerged that one reason he could seemingly take the FBI website down at will was that he had the FBI's cooperation. Perhaps they now wish they'd asked for their keys back.

Certainly the self-aware and humorous tone is similar in the tweets.


You don't hear quite so much about finite hacking crews or leaders anymore, because they have learned the hard way that the minute you take credit, you also draw fire—and the FBI has pretty good aim. But Anonymous dismantled? Not so fast.

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FBI cyber team claims victory over Anonymous

The notorious hacktivist group Anonymous has been essentially neutralized according to the FBI, which cited a series of arrests as putting a damper on the group’s influence.

The FBI believes that the identification and subsequent arrests last year of five members of “Lulz Security” - described as a powerful player within the largely amorphous Anonymous collective - have acted as a “huge deterrent effect,” according to Austin P. Berglas, the assistant special agent in charge of the bureau’s cyber division in New York.

All five members of Lulz Security, which was at least at the time considered one of the most legitimate threats within the Anonymous community, have pled guilty.

LulzSec had at the time claimed responsibility for attacks against Sony Pictures as well as Fox’s “X-Factor” reality TV series. Along with LulzSec, the FBI also arrested a sixth individual at that time that operated with another group, Antisec.

“All of these guys were major players in the Anonymous movement, and a lot of people looked to them just because of what they did,” Berglas said in an interview with the Huffington Post.

In 2012, an informant known in cyber circles as “Sabu,” or Hector Monsegur, began to cooperate with the FBI following his arrest. According to Berglas, that action and the arrests that followed led to an “added layer of distrust” within Anonymous.

"The movement is still there, and they're still yacking on Twitter and posting things, but you don't hear about these guys coming forward with those large breaches," he said. "It's just not happening, and that's because of the dismantlement of the largest players."

Indeed, a brief search through Twitter and Facebook will yield a plethora of active Anonymous groups, many of which have now evolved into other roles such as de-facto newswires which also promote online activism on behalf of a broad list of causes.

According to the FBI, its arrests last year have directly led to a decrease in high-profile cyber attacks. That news is in contrast to the group’s heyday in 2010, when Anonymous carried out a number of attacks against US companies, banks, and government agencies, employing sophisticated denial-of-service tools and defacing websites.

The cyber division of the FBI is divided into five teams of investigators. One entire unit is focused on obtaining digital evidence from cell phones, cameras, computers, and tablets in order to support a wide range of investigations including organized crime, computer hacking, and child pornography, the Huffington Post reported.

Berglas said his investigators have become very adept at breaking encryption methods used to protect computer files.

Sabu’s capture, for example, was said to be made possible when he inadvertently left his IP address exposed - a seemingly elementary mistake for anyone with significant ties to groups like AntiSec or LulzSec. That mistake allowed federal investigators to track down his location in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

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