[200] [241][242], Evaluations of Anonymous' actions and effectiveness vary widely. [124][125] However, police said the identity released by Anonymous was incorrect. Copyright Office,[74] and the website of Gene Simmons of Kiss. [101], Anons launched Operation Darknet in October 2011, targeting websites hosting child pornography. [130], In January 2015, Anonymous released a video and a statement via Twitter condemning the attack on Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people, including eight journalists, were fatally shot. The BBC reported that most of the accounts on the list appeared to be still active. He returned with his friends Caryl and Robert Ruckert on June 1. We also worked with the Virginia State Police’s crime scene unit to have them come and process the crime scene along with the FBI because at the time we did not have the equipment.”. Unlike Julie, her ankles were also bound. [141], Since 2013, Saudi Arabian hacktivists have been targeting government websites protesting the actions of the regime. [9] Anonymous' media profile diminished by 2018,[10][11][12] but the group re-emerged in 2020 to support the George Floyd protests. In 1994, she moved to Maine and attended Unity College. [193], In June 2011, members of the group claimed responsibility for an attack against Sony Pictures that took data that included "names, passwords, e-mail addresses, home addresses and dates of birth for thousands of people. In the face of legal threats against the organization by the U.S. government, Amazon.com booted WikiLeaks from its servers, and PayPal, MasterCard, and Visa cut off service to the organization. [90] The e-mails stated that Barr and HBGary had proposed to Bank of America a plan to discredit WikiLeaks in retaliation for a planned leak of Bank of America documents,[91] and the leak caused substantial public relations harm to the firm as well as leading one U.S. congressman to call for a congressional investigation. [35] Future LulzSec member Topiary became involved with the site at this time, inviting large audiences to listen to his prank phone calls via Skype. 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"[28], Journalists have commented that Anonymous' secrecy, fabrications, and media awareness pose an unusual challenge for reporting on the group's actions and motivations. DNA results indicated that it did not match Rice or the victims. "[100] In its 2013 Threats Predictions report, McAfee wrote that the technical sophistication of Anonymous was in decline and that it was losing supporters due to "too many uncoordinated and unclear operations". We do not forget. Later targets of Anonymous hacktivism included government agencies of the United States, Israel, Tunisia, Uganda and others; the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; child pornography sites; copyright protection agencies; the Westboro Baptist Church; and corporations such as PayPal, MasterCard, Visa, and Sony. With this circumstantial evidence, on April 10, 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the indictment of Darrell David Rice in the murder of Julie Williams and Lollie Winans. Molly Wood of CNET wrote that "[i]f the SOPA/PIPA protests were the Web's moment of inspiring, non-violent, hand-holding civil disobedience, #OpMegaUpload feels like the unsettling wave of car-burning hooligans that sweep in and incite the riot portion of the play. They found their car parked near Skyland Lodge and began a search of nearby trails. Then they tell the truth at unexpected and unfortunate times, sometimes destroying themselves in the process. Bridget Bohnet, Deputy Chief Ranger at Shenandoah National Park said, “We started doing hasty searches to cover all of those trail corridors in that general area to see if we could locate them. [211] On June 22, LulzSec Brazil took down the websites of the Government of Brazil and the President of Brazil. On November 5, 2013, Anonymous protesters gathered around the world for the Million Mask March. We believe in due diligence and will NOT recklessly involve innocent individuals #OpKKK", "OFFICIAL #OpKKK #HoodsOff 2015 Data Release. He eventually gave up and sped away. The FBI is still investigating the murders of Julie and Lollie, but 24 years on the case is still open and unsolved. [34], Users of 4chan's /b/ board would occasionally join into mass pranks or raids. The Little Nyonya (Chinese: 小 娘惹) is a 2008 drama serial on Singapore's free-to-air MediaCorp TV Channel 8.It stars Jeanette Aw, Qi Yuwu, Pierre Png, Joanne Peh and Xiang Yun as the casts of the series. [129] Anonymous also used BeenVerified to uncover the phone number and address of a police officer involved in the shooting. [153][154] The list included the Twitter accounts of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, The New York Times and BBC News. ', Because Anonymous has no leadership, no action can be attributed to the membership as a whole. More than 100 million Sony accounts were compromised, and the Sony services Qriocity and PlayStation Network were taken down for a month apiece by cyberattacks. Regarding unverified Twitter posts that also went viral, where radio stations of police officers playing music and preventing communication are shown, experts point out that this is unlikely to be due to a hack attack – if they are real. His cooperation led to the arrests of Ryan Cleary, James Jeffery, and others. On June 1, 1996, searchers came across a camp about half a mile from the vehicle with the bodies of Julie and Lollie. Gabriella Coleman has compared the group to the trickster archetype[250] and said that "they dramatize the importance of anonymity and privacy in an era when both are rapidly eroding. 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[85] On Thursday, December 5, 2013, 13 of the PayPal 14 pleaded guilty to taking part in the attacks. In the wake of the fatal police shooting of unarmed African-American Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, "Operation Ferguson"—a hacktivist organization that claimed to be associated with Anonymous—organized cyberprotests against police, setting up a website and a Twitter account to do so. We do not forgive. "[149][150] By the next day, however, Anonymous claimed to have taken down 3,824 pro-ISIS Twitter accounts, and by the third day, more than 5,000,[151] and to have doxxed recruiters. The "man without a head" represents, Individuals appearing in public as Anonymous, wearing, Trump-Epstein rape lawsuit and other high-profile accusations, Topiary was later revealed to be Jake Davis, a teenager living in the, A portmanteau of "hacking" and "activism". [131] The announcement stated that "We, Anonymous around the world, have decided to declare war on you, the terrorists" and promises to avenge the killings by "shut[ting] down your accounts on all social networks. We are Legion. In the years that followed the discovery of the women’s bodies, the National Park Service and the FBI joined forces to conduct a nationwide search for their killer, including following up on an estimated 15,000 leads. [47], Anonymous first became associated with hacktivism[b] in 2008 following a series of actions against the Church of Scientology known as Project Chanology. Julie's body, along with her sleeping bag and sleeping pad, was "approximately 30-40 feet away, down a little embankment". [232][233] He jumped bail in February 2012 and fled across the border into Canada. She also worked as a wilderness guide. pastebin.com/wbvP95wg With Love, Anonymous", "#OpSaudi : Anonymous launched cyber attack on Saudi Government site", "Meet The Mysterious New Hacker Army Freaking Out The Middle East", "Can Cyber Activists Chase ISIS off Twitter? Rice’s former co-workers told investigators that he yelled sexual and other profanities at them, punched a hole in the wall of the men’s bathroom, stole their lunches, bumped into them so that they’d spill their coffee and took down one woman’s picture and threw it in the trash. The websites for the Bank of Portugal, the Assembly of the Republic, and the Ministry of Economy, Innovation and Development all became unavailable for a few hours. Among those that do, opinions vary considerably. [97], In April 2011, Anons launched a series of attacks against Sony in retaliation for trying to stop hacks of the PlayStation 3 game console. On June 14, 2011, LulzSec took down four websites by request of fans as part of their "Titanic Take-down Tuesday". [26] Members commonly use the tagline "We are Anonymous. This program began on November 7, 2013[116] after an online call to action from Anonymous UK. In May 2011, members of Lulz Security gained international attention for hacking into the American Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) website. The video, claiming that it is "a message for al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and other terrorists", was uploaded to the group's Belgian account. Other high-profile accusations involved Bill Gates and Naomi Campbell. The group's first attack was against Fox.com, leaking several passwords, LinkedIn profiles, and the names of 73,000 X Factor contestants. [230][231], Chris Doyon (alias "Commander X"), a self-described leader of Anonymous, was arrested in September 2011 for a cyberattack on the website of Santa Cruz County, California. On May 31st, the authorities were notified by Thomas Williams, Julie’s father, that the women were missing and park rangers set out to look for them. Robot' Explains Its Hacktivist and Cult Roots". Senate. [209][210], Beginning in June 2011, hackers from Anonymous and LulzSec collaborated on a series of cyber attacks known as "Operation AntiSec". Supporters have called the group "freedom fighters"[5] and digital Robin Hoods[6] while critics have described them as "a cyber lynch-mob"[7] or "cyber terrorists". [106], On January 19, 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice shut down the file-sharing site Megaupload on allegations of copyright infringement. The trickster is attracted to change and the need for change, and that's where Anonymous goes. When the announcement was finally made, acting Park Superintendent Greg Stiles called it an "isolated" incident, without providing any basis for such a statement. In the letter, Anonymous claimed Gates had advocated for strict measures, including a surveillance system that could track infected people. They were following the backcountry regulations at the time which required them to be out of sight.”. Anonymous will not stand this any longer. [22] Membership is open to anyone who wishes to state they are a member of the collective;[23] British journalist [38] These raids resulted in the first mainstream press story on Anonymous, a report by Fox station KTTV in Los Angeles, California in the U.S. The document made no mention of the ban on his political rights for two years. Rice also faced suspicion in the death of Alicia Showalter Reynolds, but he was never charged in that case either. [237][238][239][240], AnonOps admin Christopher Weatherhead (alias "Nerdo"), a 22-year-old who had reportedly been intimately involved in organising DDoS attacks during "Operation Payback",[241] was convicted by a UK court on one count of conspiracy to impair the operation of computers in December 2012. [173], According to researcher Troy Hunt, these breaches of the site may have happened from old credentials. Quinn Norton of Wired wrote of the group in 2011: I will confess up front that I love Anonymous, but not because I think they're the heroes. Gates recently suggested implementing a "national tracking system similar to South Korea" during an online Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Reddit. Using a SQL injection weakness, the four hacked the HBGary site, used Barr's captured password to vandalize his Twitter feed with racist messages, and released an enormous cache of HBGary's e-mails in a torrent file on Pirate Bay. [226] The July 2011 arrest of LulzSec member Topiary became a particular rallying point, leading to a widespread "Free Topiary" movement. They also climbed Hawksbill, the highest mountain in Shenandoah just before they pitched camp for the last time a few days after they entered the park. Anonymous, issued an open letter to Gates. She was driving from Baltimore to Charlottesville, about 155 miles, to shop with her mother, Sadie. In one, Rice admitted, ".. that he has only engaged in two sexual relationships with women, the last occurring in 1991." Three missions using a charity framework were suggested in the original global spawning a variety of direct actions from used clothing drives to pitch in community potlucks feeding events in the UK, US and Turkey.[117]. [161], In March 2016, Anonymous was reported to have declared war on Donald Trump. It gained repercussions after the video about George Floyd was published[173] and the Minneapolis police website, which is responsible for the police officer, was down. Within a few days, these were supplanted by the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC), a network stress-testing application allowing users to flood a server with TCP or UDP packets. [58] In-person protests against the Church continued throughout the year, including "Operation Party Hard" on March 15 and "Operation Reconnect" on April 12. [78], On December 8, Anons launched an attack against PayPal's main site. "[132] On January 12, they brought down a website that was suspected to belong to one of these groups. Anonymous originated in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan representing the concept of many online and offline community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain. [citation needed] Later the same day most of these tweets disappeared from their accounts, but continued circulating as screenshots on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit. [142] These actions have seen attacks supported by the possibly Iranian backed Yemen Cyber Army. [243] Anonymous is sometimes stated to have changed the nature of protesting,[6][7] and in 2012, Time called it one of the "100 most influential people" in the world. [144][145][146], In November 2015, Anonymous announced a major, sustained operation against ISIS following the November 2015 Paris attacks, declaring, "Anonymous from all over the world will hunt you down. Despite suspicions that a Columbia, Maryland man was the perpetrator, the case against him fell apart. [128], On November 24, 2014, Anonymous shut down the Cleveland city website and posted a video after Tamir Rice, a twelve-year-old boy armed only with a BB gun, was shot to death by a police officer in a Cleveland park. [217], On July 18, LulzSec hacked into and vandalized the website of British newspaper The Sun in response to a phone-hacking scandal. According to PC Magazine, these individuals were arrested after they attacked websites as a response to the Turkish government demand to ISPs to implement a system of filters that many have perceived as censorship. However, this account was disputed. [citation needed][19], We [Anonymous] just happen to be a group of people on the Internet who need—just kind of an outlet to do as we wish, that we wouldn't be able to do in regular society. Demonstrations were held in 400 cities around the world to coincide with Guy Fawkes Night. [192] LulzSec stated that some of its hacks, including its attack on PBS, were motivated by a desire to defend WikiLeaks and its informant Chelsea Manning. [173] Later, it was confirmed by CNET that the leaks made from the police website are false and that someone is taking advantage of the repercussions of George Floyd's death to spread misinformation. [135] The attack temporarily affected the websites of several federal agencies. After that, the case fell apart, and on February 25, 2004, Judge Moon dismissed the charges against Darrell David Rice “without prejudice”, meaning he could still be charged at a later date. These members of Anonymous were captured in different cities of Turkey including Istanbul and Ankara. [89], Tflow, Sabu, Topiary, and Ryan Ackroyd (known as "Kayla") collaborated in February 2011 on a cyber-attack against Aaron Barr, CEO of the computer security firm HBGary Federal, in retaliation for his research on Anonymous and his threat to expose members of the group. [127], It was reported on November 19, 2014, that Anonymous had declared cyber war on the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) the previous week, after the KKK had made death threats following the Ferguson riots. He was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. They weave vast fabrications as a form of performance. [123] On August 14, Anonymous posted on its Twitter feed what it claimed was the name of the officer involved in the shooting. [104][105], In 2011, the Koch Industries website was attacked following their attack upon union members, resulting in their website being made inaccessible for 15 minutes. But upon inspection, nothing seemed to be wrong with the car. The websites of the South African Broadcasting Corporation and a political parties Economic Freedom Fighters and Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF were also attacked for "nationalist socialist rhetoric and politicising racism. [57] Many protesters wore the stylized Guy Fawkes masks popularized by the graphic novel and film V for Vendetta, in which an anarchist revolutionary battles a totalitarian government; the masks soon became a popular symbol for Anonymous. [102] In 2012, Anons leaked the names of users of a suspected child porn site in OpDarknetV2. Gupta-owned companies targeted included the websites of Oakbay Investments, The New Age, and ANN7. [67] Anons also issued a press release, stating: Anonymous is tired of corporate interests controlling the internet and silencing the people’s rights to spread information, but more importantly, the right to SHARE with one another. "[247] Dwight Silverman of the Houston Chronicle concurred, stating that "Anonymous' actions hurt the movement to kill SOPA/PIPA by highlighting online lawlessness. "[194] In early June, LulzSec hacked into and stole user information from the pornography website www.pron.com. But into 2020, the case remains unsolved. The only evidence left was circumstantial, and the defense was prepared to vigorously dispute each aspect of the government's case. [156], In 2015, a group that claims affiliation with Anonymous group, calling themselves as AnonSec, claimed to have hacked and gathered almost 276 GB of data from NASA servers including NASA flight and radar logs and videos, and also multiple documents related to ongoing research. [80] Topiary states that he and other Anons then "lied a bit to the press to give it that sense of abundance", exaggerating the role of the grassroots membership. In 2013, one member, a 38-year-old truck driver, pleaded guilty when accused of participating in the attack for a period of one minute, and received a sentence of two years federal probation, and ordered to pay $183,000 restitution, the amount Koch stated they paid a consultancy organisation, despite this being only a denial of service attack. [227], The first person to be sent to jail for participation in an Anonymous DDoS attack was Dmitriy Guzner, an American 19-year-old. The couple developed a relationship, despite their different backgrounds. [84] PayPal estimated the damage to have cost the company US$5.5 million. [121] City officials said that e-mail systems were targeted and phones died, while the Internet crashed at the City Hall. Some commentators also argued that the DDoS attacks by Anonymous following the January 2012 Stop Online Piracy Act protests had proved counterproductive. According to journalist Barry Yeoman, Lollie was a “microbrew-drinking, Phish-following, cigarette-smoking, good-time girl.”. [164] Various outlets claiming to represent Anonymous have released attacks on the Clinton campaign. [165], In late 2017, QAnon, a pro-Trump group claiming to be the "real" Anonymous, first emerged on 4chan. [66] On September 19, future LulzSec member Mustafa Al-Bassam (known as "Tflow") and other Anons hacked the website of Copyright Alliance, an anti-infringement group, and posted the name of the operation: "Payback Is A Bitch", or "Operation Payback" for short. [13][14], Long-standing political question that has gone unanswered with often tragic consequences for social movements. There's a common phrase: 'we are doing it for the lulz. [185][186], In 2020, Anonymous started cyber-attacks against the Nigerian government. [75] By October 7, 2010, total downtime for all websites attacked during Operation Payback was 537.55 hours. Anonymous is a group, in the sense that a flock of birds is a group. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani outlined his plans for peace at a regional summit in Tajikistan on Tuesday, saying that he would step aside if an election was held. Anonymous is a decentralized international activist/hacktivist collective/movement that is widely known for its various cyber attacks against several governments, government institutions and government agencies, corporations, and the Church of Scientology.. Hacking", "LulzSec Releases Arizona Law Enforcement Data In Retaliation For Immigration Law", "LulzSec takes down Brazil government sites", "LulzBoat Sails On: Anonymous Dumps More Arizona Data", "Online security breach! [56], On February 10, thousands of Anonymous joined simultaneous protests at Church of Scientology facilities around the world. I could actually feel the heat of the engine.". Investigators did not reveal how she died, but they did say she likely was murdered the day she was abducted. [157] AnonSec group also claimed gaining access of a Global Hawk Drone of NASA, and released some video footage purportedly from the drone's cameras. The hacked page featured the Flag of Taiwan, the KMT emblem, a Taiwan Independence flag, and the Anonymous logo along with a caption. [29], The name Anonymous itself is inspired by the perceived anonymity under which users post images and comments on the Internet. "[29] Norton states that the difficulties in reporting on the group cause most writers, including herself, to focus on the "small groups of hackers who stole the limelight from a legion, defied their values, and crashed violently into the law" rather than "Anonymous’s sea of voices, all experimenting with new ways of being in the world". Julie and Lollie met at a charity in 1994 called Woodswomen in Minnesota.
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