Source: Adam Clark Estes, The Atlantic Wire
Last week’s arrests of 21 hackers worldwide was supposed to sound like a warning shot over the bow of LulzSec and Anonymous. The arrest happened in the U.S., the U.K. and the Netherlands and came just two weeks after a series of 32 raids of hackers homes in Italy. The two groups denied that authorities had nabbed anybody significant. “To be honest I don’t see a single major Anon hacker (or at least any hacker that’s wrecked things for the entire year) come close to arrest,” the groups’ de facto spokesperson Topiary told The Atlantic Wire.
Indeed, this week, some relatively new Anonymous-affiliated groups launched fresh attacks on new turf. As an apparent retaliation to the recent crackdown, a group called themselves LOAD (Legion of Anonymous Doom) claims to have broken into Italy’s cyber crime unit, CNAIPIC, and stolen 8 gigabytes worth of data. They accused the Italian government of stealing evidence from “the seized property of suspected computer professional entertainers”–presumably the hackers arrest earlier this month–”to conduct illegal operations with foreign intelligence agencies and oligarchy to facilitate their lust for power and money.” The release preview included an assortment of files, including photos of the officers.
Meanwhile, another groups calling themselves AnonAustria broke into the site of GIS, the Austrian government’s television licensing agency, and stole the information for 96,000 accounts. The agency admitted to the breach Monday and said they would file a complaint against the unknown attackers. The same group also recently attacked the websites of Austria’s two major political parties. After those attacks a representative told the Kurier newspaper in Vienna, “We won’t stop in the foreseeable future. … Most of us are ready to risk getting punished for what they are doing. … Some of us may calm down if lawmakers show the will to allow more direct democracy.”
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