Top 10 Facts - Anonymous [Completed]
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Anonymous, originated in 2003 4 10
representing the concept of the many online and offline community users
Users are simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain
Anonymous members can be distinguished
by the wearing of stylized Guy Fawkes masks
The group's first attack made World Wide News
after it attacked on Scientology, a religious cult as that has been globally criticized
for its practices and beliefs
They first attacked the websites, which led the secret documents being released on the church
In November 2010, WikiLeaks began releasing hundreds of thousands of leak US diplomatic cables
In the face of legal threats against the organization by the US government,
several companies shut out of Anonymous, including PayPal
Operation PayBack, and then expanded to include operation of Ben Assange
The subsequent of the attack brought down PayPal account for an hour on December 8th
and another brief period on December 9th, which cost the company around 5.5 million
Operation Darknets are Anonymous' taking down over forty child pornography sites in 2011 alone
including one of the largest-known
They posted account details of all its 1898 users online
Anonymous operates as a decentralized community with no leader
A loosely agreed goal is formed on forms
and then implemented in collaborated attacks
Hacktivist forms an informed links in Anonymous, took down the CIA Website for the roles
The leader Sabu turned to FBI informer for leniency upon censing and revealed the secrets on the group
as well as giving ip details, enabling the arrest of several hackers associated with Anonymous and LuizSec
Guy Fawkes The basis for Anonymous masks
Applied to established Catholic dominance
The mask itself are may by Time Warner who profit every time one is bought
Operation Payback was the coordinated group of attacks on high-profile oppenents of Internet piracy
It started as retaliation to denial of service attacks on torrent sites
ultimately culminating in a wave of attacks on major pro-copyright
and anti-piracy organizations, law firms, and individuals
A spokesman from Westboro church growled on the radio show that beat Anonymous
proceeded by a statement calling them cry baby hackers
In telling them to bring it
Oh that's exactly what happened
with anonymous spokesman called in the radio show,
and spontaneously hack the church's websites while on the air
What became one of the largest data security breach in history
Anonymous took down Sony Playstation Network for the PS3,
in which personal details from approximately 77 million accounts were stolen
The attack occurred between April 17th and April 19th in 2011,
forcing Sony to turn off PSA on April 20th
Users were unable to play online there after with the outage lasting for twenty four days
The government officials from around the global voice concern over the theft
in Sony's one-week delay before warning its users and data theft
with some reporting credit card fraud
The attacks were direct result in Sony taking hacker George Hotz
to court of being first person who hacked PS3, and posted tutorial on the web.
Hotz is also known for being the first person to successfully hack the iPhone
Ultimately, the hack attributed to a 3.2 billion loss for Sony