http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11134751
“Jury indicts 13 Anonymous hacker group members”
12:40 PM Friday Oct 4, 2013
SNIPPET: “In December 2010, the conspirators discussed possible targets related to WikiLeaks, which received more than 700,000 documents and some battlefield video from Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the largest-volume leak of classified material in U.S. history.
Anonymous focused on websites that were either critical of WikiLeaks or had refused to process payments for WikiLeaks, among them MasterCard and Visa. The targets even included the Swedish prosecutor’s office, in connection with arrest warrants for sexual crimes issued for Assange.
Members of Anonymous launched what they called Operation Payback, an attack on the Motion Picture Industry of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, the British Phonographic Industry and others. The attacks were retaliation against the discontinuation of “The Pirate Bay,” a Sweden-based file sharing website devoted to the illegal downloading of copyrighted material.
According to the indictment, Anonymous then moved against others such as ACS:Law, a British law firm helping clients to protect intellectual property rights; Anti-piracy.nl, the website for the BREIN foundation, a Dutch trade association fighting intellectual property theft; and the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft.
The website of the US Copyright Office at the Library of Congress was the subject of a multiday cyber-attack.”
Bump to post no. 82.