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Timeline of events associated with Anonymous

January 01, 1970

Anonymous is a decentralized virtual community.[1] They are commonly referred to as an internet-based collective of hacktivists whose goals, like its organization, are decentralized. Anonymous seeks mass awareness and revolution against what the organization perceives as corrupt entities, while attempting to maintain anonymity. Anonymous has had a hacktivist impact.[2] This is a timeline of activities reported to be carried out by the group.

2007 edit

  • January: Radio host Hal Turner sued several online groups, alleging Anonymous "posted unauthorized copies of his radio shows online, attacked [his] server so as to make it unavailable, and placed unauthorized orders for goods, services and merchandise from third parties in [his] name." The case was dismissed in December for lack of response.[3]
  • December: A man was arrested in Toronto on charges of luring a child under the age of 14, attempting to invite sexual touching, attempted exposure, and other charges. Police stated that Anonymous, a cyber-vigilante group which trolls for pedophiles and then "outs" them, had targetted the suspect before law enforcement was involved, and cautioned that such interference could impede official investigations.[4][5][6]

2008 edit

  • February–December: Known as Project Chanology, Anonymous organized multiple in-person pickets in front of Churches of Scientology world-wide, starting February 10 and running throughout the year, achieving coordinated pickets in over 100 cities, thousands of protestors, and wearing Guy Fawkes masks.[9]
  • June: Anonymous claimed responsibility for attacking and defacing websites and forums of SOHH (Support Online Hip Hop) and AllHipHop, causing the sites to temporarily shut down. They also stole personal information about SOHH employees.[12] (See also SOHH § Defacement.)

2009 edit

  • January: Anonymous targeted California teen McKay Hatch who runs the No Cussing Club, a website against profanity. Hatch's home address, phone number, and other personal information were leaked on the internet, and his family received hate mail, obscene phone calls, bogus pizza deliveries, and pornography through the mail.[15][16][17]

2010 edit

  • January: Anonymous attacked websites of the governments of Tunisia and Zimbabwe over censorship issues related to WikiLeaks.[20]
  • July: Anonymous flooded the Oregon Tea Party's Facebook page when they found out that OTP had been using part of Anonymous' slogan, "We Are Legion". OTP surrendered, apologized and recanted.[23]
  • July: In response to Chelsea Manning's imprisonment and treatment after leaking classified information to WikiLeaks, Anonymous threatened to disrupt activities at Marine Corps Brig, Quantico by cyber-attacking communications, exposing private information of personnel, and other harassment methods. Military spokespersons responded that the threat has been referred to law enforcement and counterterrorism officials and requested an investigation.[24][25]
  • September: Anonymous targeted major pro-copyright and anti-piracy organizations, law firms, individuals, and entertainment industry websites in retaliation for DDoS attacks on torrent sites.[26][27] (See also Operation Payback.)
  • December: Anonymous promoted sifting through WikiLeaks to identify potentially overlooked cables, making short videos covering the topic, and flooding the internet with them.[30]

2011 edit

  • January 3+: Anonymous got involved during the Tunisian Revolution and engaged in DDoS attacks on key Tunisian websites—including the president, prime minister, ministry of industry, ministry of foreign affairs, and the stock exchange—taking down at least 8 websites and defacing several others. Anonymous distributed information and scripts to help Tunisians bypass government censorship, and Anonymous' own website also came under DDoS attack.[31][32][33][34]
  • January 9: Anonynous hacked and defaced the website of Fine Gael, an Irish political party.[35]

Attack on HBGary Federal edit

See also: WikiLeaks, Bank of America, Hunton & Williams, and Anonymous

On the weekend of February 5–6, 2011, Aaron Barr, the chief executive of the security firm HBGary Federal, announced that his firm had successfully infiltrated the Anonymous group, and although he would not hand over details to the police, he would reveal his findings at a later conference in San Francisco. In retaliation for Aaron Barr's claims, members of the group Anonymous hacked the website of HBGary Federal and replaced the welcome page with a message stating that Anonymous should not be messed with, and that the hacking of the website was necessary to defend itself. Using a variety of techniques, including social engineering and SQL injection,[38] Anonymous went on to take control of the company's e-mail, dumping 68,000 e-mails from the system, erasing files, and taking down their phone system.[39] The leaked emails revealed the reports and company presentations of other companies in computer security such as Endgame systems who promise high quality offensive software, advertising "subscriptions of $2,500,000 per year for access to 0day exploits".[40]

Among the documents exposed was a PowerPoint presentation entitled "The Wikileaks Threat", put together by HBGary Federal along with two other data intelligence firms for Bank of America in December.[41] Within the report, these firms created a list of important contributors to WikiLeaks; they further developed a strategic plan of attack against the site. As TechHerald explains, "the plan included pressing a journalist in order to disrupt his support of the organization, cyber attacks, disinformation, and other potential proactive tactics." The report specifically claims that Glenn Greenwald's support was key to WikiLeaks' ongoing survival.[42][43][44]

Anonymous also personally attacked Aaron Barr by taking control of his Twitter account, posting Mr Barr's supposed home address and social security number.[45]

In response to the attacks, founder of HBGary Federal, Greg Hoglund, responded to journalist Brian Krebs, "They didn't just pick on any company, we try to protect the US Government from hackers. They couldn't have chosen a worse company to pick on."[45] After the attacks, Anonymous continued to clog up HBGary Federal fax machines, and made threatening phone calls.[46]

Operation Ouroboros edit

On February 16, 2011, the group supposedly[47] wrote an open letter to the Westboro Baptist Church, stating: "Cease & desist your protest campaign in the year 2011... close your public Web sites. Should you ignore this warning... the propaganda & detestable doctrine that you promote will be eradicated; the damage incurred will be irreversible, and neither your institution nor your congregation will ever be able to fully recover."[48][49][50] On February 19, 2011, the church responded, telling Anonymous to "bring it on" and calling them, among other things, "a puddle of pimple-faced nerds".[51][52][53] Anonymous subsequently denied the authenticity of the threat,[47] suggesting that someone from outside Anonymous had made the posting.[53][54][55] Due to their website being openly editable by anyone, it is unknown who made the post. Anonymous responded with a press release calling the Westboro Church "professional trolls" stating that they believe that it was a member of the Westboro Church making an attempt to provoke an attack, thus acting as a honeypot which would both allow the church to retaliate against Internet service providers in court, and to gain it further publicity.[53][56] They also claimed that they had more pressing matters to attend to, namely the support of the protests that led to the 2011 Libyan civil war.[57] That said, Anonymous later suggested tactics for those who wished to attack Westboro nevertheless, avoiding DDoS in favor of sending "prostitutes, preferably male", and in general to "rape their asses in the most unpredictable ways possible".[56]

"Our best guess is that you heard about us on that newfangled TV of yours and thought we might be some good money for your little church."
—Anonymous response to the Westboro issue[55]

Anonymous indicated that an attack would be self-defeating, stating: "When Anonymous says we support free speech, we mean it. We count Beatrice Hall among our Anonymous forebears: 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.'"[58] Nonetheless, Westboro's website at godhatesfags.com suffered an attack.[59][60][61] Another hacktivist by the name of Jester claimed to bring down the websites from the Westboro Baptist Church on his Twitter account.[62][63][64]

2011–2012 Operation Empire State Rebellion edit

On March 14, 2011, Anonymous began releasing emails it said were obtained from Bank of America.[65] According to the group, the files show evidence of "corruption and fraud", and relate to the issue of improper foreclosures. They say that a former employee named Brian Penny[66] from Balboa Insurance, a firm which used to be owned by BofA, appeared to be a reputable insider in the force placed insurance market,[67][68] a market which, in 2012, began getting more and more coverage from various government and media sources, including the New York Department of Finance,[69] 50 State Attorney General Coalition,[70] the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,[71] and large class action lawsuits.[72] Balboa Insurance is now owned by Australian Reinsurance company QBE,[73] while Brian privately consults various agencies and institutions on the inside workings of mortgage/insurance tracking systems and force placed insurance[74] while maintaining a blog about his experience as a whistleblower.[75]

Operation Sony edit

See also: Sony Computer Entertainment America v. George Hotz

Anonymous announced their intent to attack Sony websites in response to Sony's lawsuit against George Hotz and, specifically due to Sony's gaining access to the IP addresses of all the people who visited George Hotz's blog as part of the libel action, terming it an 'offensive against free speech and internet freedom'[76] Although Anonymous admitted responsibility to subsequent attacks on the Sony websites, Anonymous branch AnonOps denied that they were the cause behind a major outage of the PlayStation Network in April 2011. However, as Anonymous is a leaderless organization, the possibility remains that another branch of the group is responsible for the outage, though screenshots of AnonOps promotion of the attack still exist.[77][78]

June edit

  • June 12: Anonymous claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack of the website of the National Police Corps of Spain, asserting it was a legitimate form of peaceful protest in retaliation for the arrest of three individuals alleged to be associated with acts of cyber civil disobedience attributed to Anonymous.[80]
  • June 15: The group launched DDoS attacks on ninety-one Malaysian government websites in retaliation for their censoring of websites.[81]
  • June 28: Anonymous announced that within the next 24 hours, it would hack into the website of the Knesset, the legislature of Israel, and knock it offline. It was stated that the planned attacks were a response to alleged hacking attacks by Israeli intelligence such as the Stuxnet virus, a computer virus which allegedly was created by Israeli and U.S. intelligence and targeted the Iranian nuclear program.[87]

Operation Anti-Security edit

Main article: Operation AntiSec

The group collaborated with LulzSec to hack the websites of a number of government and corporate sources and release information from them.[88][89] As well as targeting American sites, Anonymous also targeted government sites in Tunisia, Anguilla, Brazil, Zimbabwe, Turkey, and Australia. On July 21, Anonymous released two PDFs allegedly taken from NATO.[90]

Operation Facebook edit

In August 2011, someone created an account on Twitter with the name OP_Facebook and announced the "Operation Facebook". According to the links on the post, Anonymous was going to take down Facebook on November 5, 2011.[91] The date "November 5" is believed to be a reference to V for Vendetta, where the character "V" conducts his plans every fifth of November in memory of Guy Fawkes. This operation isn't assuredly an Anonymous one. There was an earlier OpFacebook that was abandoned, and this was an attempted revival.[92] The plan was contentious and does not appear to be supported by the majority of those who say they are part of Anonymous.[93]

Operation BART edit

Main article: Bay Area Rapid Transit § 2011 Charles Hill killing and aftermath

In August 2011, in response to Bay Area Rapid Transit's shutdown of cell phone service in an attempt to disconnect protesters from assembling in response to a police shooting, as well as the shooting itself, Anonymous sent out a mass email/fax bomb to BART personnel and organized multiple mass physical protests at the network's Civic Center station.[94] Anonymous also hacked the BART website, releasing the personal information of 102 BART police officers,[95] as well as account information for about 2,000 customers.[96]

Shooting Sheriffs Saturday edit

In an event dubbed "Shooting Sheriffs Saturday," Anonymous hacked 70 (mostly rural) law enforcement websites and released 10 GB of leaked emails, training files, informant information and other information.[97][98] The name is likely a reference to the song "I Shot the Sheriff" by Bob Marley.

Support of Occupy Wall Street edit

 
A member holding an Anonymous flier at Occupy Wall Street, a protest that the group actively supported, September 17, 2011

Several contingents of Anonymous have given support to the Occupy Wall Street movement, with members attending local protests and blogs run by members covering the movement.[99][100][101]

Operation Syria edit

In early August, Anonymous hacked the Syrian Defense Ministry website and replaced it with a vector image of the pre-Ba'athist flag, a symbol of the pro-democracy movement in the country, as well as a message supporting the 2011 Syrian uprising and calling on members of the Syrian Army to defect to protect protesters.[102]

Operation DarkNet edit

In October 2011, the collective campaigned against child pornography protected by anonymous hosting techniques. They temporarily DDoSed 40 child porn sites, published the usernames of over 1500 people frequenting one of those websites, and invited the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Interpol to follow up.[103]

Opposition to Los Zetas edit

On October 6, 2011, Anonymous released a video stating that Los Zetas had kidnapped one of the group's members, and threatened that unless the hostage was freed, they would publish personal information about members of the cartel and their collaborators in politics, police, military, and business, which might lead to their prosecution by Mexican authorities, or targeting by rival cartels. The website of Gustavo Rosario Torres, a former Tabasco state prosecutor, was subsequently defaced with a message suggesting his involvement with the organization.[104] According to Anonymous Iberoamerica blog, in early November Los Zetas reportedly freed the kidnapped victim without knowledge of its Anonymous affiliation.[105][106]

However, following widespread news coverage of the video, reporters did not find evidence of a previous Anonymous action matching the description given, and found little evidence of support among Anonymous members, particularly in Mexico.[107][108] Reporters noted a lack of details and police reports[109][110][111] and that the Veracruz state attorney general couldn't confirm the kidnapping.[112][113]

Operation Brotherhood Takedown edit

On November 7, 2011, Anonymous released a warning threat to the Muslim Brotherhood that they would take down major websites belonging to their organization.[114] On November 12 the Muslim Brotherhood released a statement detailing the extent of the attack and that four websites were temporarily taken down.[115] On November 12, 2011, another video was released claiming the attack would continue until November 18.[116]

John Pike incident edit

In response to the UC Davis pepper-spray incident, Anonymous released the personal information of John Pike, the officer that pepper-sprayed peaceful protestors.[117]

Attack on Stratfor edit

Main article: Stratfor email leak

On December 24, claims were made that Anonymous stole thousands of e-mail addresses and credit card information from security firm Stratfor. Reportedly, Anonymous commented that this is because the data was unencrypted, however some members of Anonymous denied the group was involved.[118] The hackers included Jeremy Hammond, who worked with Anonymous to release Stratfor's 5,543,061 emails to WikiLeaks. The emails revealed Stratfor's surveillance of groups such as Occupy Wall Street and protestors of the Bhopal disaster.[119][120]

Operation Pharisee edit

Operation Pharisee was an attack organized via social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube[121] against the Vatican website for World Youth Day 2011. It was unsuccessful, despite a denial-of-service attack resulting 34 times normal traffic, and well-documented[122] due to the efforts of Imperva, the security firm employed by the Vatican.[123]

Operation Deepthroat edit

Anonymous, along with 4chan's /b/ board, Reddit, Tumblr and Funnyjunk, teamed together to make a raid on 9gag called Operation Deepthroat. The raid was separated in multiple teams: The first team, the Alpha Team, spammed "horrifying" images of child pornography, gore, furries and scat on 9gag's site, followed by fake accounts made by 4chan, Anonymous, Reddit, Tumblr and Funnyjunk voting the spam up, effectively overloading the servers. The second team, the Gold Team, used the Low Orbit Ion Cannon and the High Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC and HOIC, respectively), and fired on 9gag, which DDoS'd the entire site down. The third team, the Red Team, was tasked to spread the information of the OP on 4chan, Reddit, Tumblr and Funnyjunk, and also supported the other teams. The fourth and final team, the White Team, was tasked with spamming chat sites such as Omegle and Chatroulette with inappropriate messages, such as "9gag.com is the place for Child Pornography!", in order to tarnish 9gag's "wholesome" and "family-friendly" name. The reason behind this whole operation began when 9gag took several of 4chan's memes and called them theirs, followed by making a legion called the '9gag army', a ripoff of Anonymous. The operation began on December 21, 2011, at 12:00 AM, and ended at 11:59 PM. 9gag was mainly offline for the next few days, except for some servers which managed to protect themselves from the LOIC and HOIC. Prior to the operation, 4chan users used fake accounts to trick 9gaggers into DDoS'ing themselves, saying the coordinates were that of 4chan. The pre-raid attack was mostly ineffective, however, as only a few servers went down.

2012 edit

CSLEA hack edit

In January 2012, Anonymous hacked the website of the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association to protest police brutality.[124]

Occupy Nigeria edit

In solidarity with Occupy Nigeria, Anonymous has joined forces with the People's Liberation Front and the Naija Cyber Hactivists of Nigeria. Anonymous promised "a relentless and devastating assault upon the web assets of the Nigerian government" in support of Occupy Nigeria. This was in protest to the removal of fuel subsidy that the majority of impoverished Nigerians depend upon for their very existence, causing the price of fuel and transportation to skyrocket and therefore extreme hardship for the majority of Nigerians. On January 13, the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission website was hacked, with a false report of the arrest of people involved in the oil sector replacing the normal page.[125]

Operation Megaupload edit

 
Wikinews has related news:
  • US government, music industry websites taken offline in web attack

In retaliation for the shut down of the file sharing service Megaupload and the arrest of four workers,[126] Anonymous DDoSed the websites of UMG (the company responsible for the lawsuit against Megaupload), the United States Department of Justice, the United States Copyright Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the MPAA, Warner Brothers Music, the RIAA, and the HADOPI the afternoon of January 19, 2012.[127] The operations by Anonymous were speculated to have been driven further by anger over the House of Representatives' Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate's Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA).[128]

Anti-ACTA activism in Europe edit

On January 21, 2012, a series of DDoS attacks on Polish government websites took place, for which the Anonymous took responsibility and referred to as "the Polish Revolution".[129] The group via their Twitter account stated it was a revenge for upcoming signing of ACTA agreement by the Polish government. Starting with websites of the Sejm, Polish Prime Minister, President, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, later on websites of the police, Internal Security Agency, Ministry of Foreign Affairs were also blocked. The presumed attack was further strengthened by the media coverage which resulted in extremely high interest of public opinion, followed up by blackout of popular Polish websites on 24th[130] and protests of thousands of people on January 24 and 25, in major cities of Poland,[131] against signing ACTA. Other suspected targets were the websites of Paweł Graś - the government's spokesman (blocked after Graś denied the attacks ever took place), the website of PSL (blocked after Eugeniusz Kłopotek, a member of the party, supported ACTA on air of the major TV station). Governmental sites in France's presidential website[132] and Austria's Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Economy and also the website of the Federal Chancellor[133] were also cracked and paralyzed.

Anonymous in Slovenia announced opposition against the Slovenian signing of the ACTA and have posted video threats on various websites against the government officials, as well as against Nova Ljubljanska Banka (commonly known as NLB), accusing the latter of corruption.[134] On February 4, 2012, The NLB was a victim of a cyber attack and was offline for one hour, while public demonstrations were held in the capital of Ljubljana and in Maribor. Some estimated 3000 people gathered in the capital, while around 300 protested in Maribor.[135]

Operation Russia edit

Unidentified hackers cracked email boxes of some prominent pro-Kremlin activists and officials, including Vasily Yakemenko, head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs, Kristina Potupchik, press secretary for Nashi youth movement, and Oleg Khorokhordin, deputy head of the Department for Internal Affairs at the Presidential Administration. Since February 1, links to contents of the mailboxes have been appearing on @OP_Russia Twitter account. The hackers confirmed they consider themselves a part of the Anonymous movement; "We are Anonymous", they stated in an interview.[136][137] The information discovered enabled many to accuse Yakemenko and his colleagues in paying some influential bloggers, as well as numerous trolls, for publishing stories and commenting in favour of Vladimir Putin on negative press articles on the Internet.[138][139][140]

Boston Police Department attacks edit

On February 3, 2012, Anonymous hacked a website belonging to the Boston Police Department to protest the eviction of Occupy Wall Street protestors.[141] BPD later responded with a sarcastic video of their own.[142]

Preventing vote tampering edit

In 2012, Anonymous claims to have added a firewall they called The Great Oz, allegedly designed to prevent election tampering in the United States.[143]

Syrian Government E-mail Hack edit

Main article: Syria Files

On February 6, 2012, Anonymous broke into the mail server of the Syrian Ministry of Presidential Affairs, gaining access to some 78 inboxes of Bashar al-Assad's staffers in the process. One of the email files was a document preparing Assad for his December 2011 interview with ABC's Barbara Walters. One of the passwords commonly used by Assad's office accounts was "12345."[144]

In July 2012, Anonymous gave over 2.4 million e-mails to WikiLeaks.[145]

AntiSec Leak and CIA Attack edit

On Friday, February 10, 2012, Anonymous claimed responsibility for taking down the Central Intelligence Agency's website for more than 5 hours. Several servers went back up while others stayed down.[146] This followed a conversation leak, in which Anonymous took responsibility, between FBI and Scotland Yard officials discussing members of Anonymous being put on trial as well as other topics on the group, which took place a week before.[147] On March 6, 2012, Donncha O'Cearbhaill was charged in connection with the leak.[148] He was released 24-hours later.[149]

Interpol Attack edit

Following Interpol's announcement on February 28 that they made arrests of 25 suspected members of the hacking activist group Anonymous in Europe and South America, their site went down for a moment.[150]

AIPAC Attack edit

On March 4, 2012, Anonymous took down the American Israel Public Affairs Committee website. An AIPAC spokesman was questioned on the matter but did not respond.[151] A video titled "Anonymous: Message to AIPAC" was uploaded on YouTube earlier the same day.[152][importance?]

Vatican website DDoS Attacks edit

The official website of the Vatican was brought down temporarily by a DDoS attack from Anonymous on March 7, 2012. Later that day the website recovered. Anonymous has also attempted to take the site down in 2011 but the attempt did not succeed. They claimed that their attack was not targeted against the followers of the Catholic Church but against the Church itself, which Anonymous viewed as corrupt.[153]

On March 12 the Vatican's official website was brought down for a few hours by a second DDoS attack. Anonymous also hacked Vatican Radio and gained access to the Vatican Radio database in protest against the Vatican Radio allegedly using "repeaters with power transmission largely outside the bounds of the law."[154]

Bureau of Justice leak edit

On March 21, 2012, 1.7GB of data was stolen from the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics by Anonymous. The leak reportedly contained "shiny things such as internal emails and the entire database dump."[155][156]

Taking down Monsanto's Hungarian website edit

On March 16 the official website of Monsanto's Hungarian website collapsed and wasn't restored until March 26.[157]

Symantec source code leak edit

In March 2012, people claiming to be a part of Anonymous leaked the source code for old versions of Norton AntiVirus and Norton Utilities.[158]

April 2012 Chinese attack edit

In April 2012, Anonymous hacked 485 Chinese government websites, some more than once, to protest the treatment of their citizens. They urged people to "fight for justice, fight for freedom, [and] fight for democracy".[159][160][161]

Operation Bahrain and Formula One attacks edit

On April 21, Anonymous defaced the official site of Formula One, in protest against the 2012 Bahrain Grand Prix. The race was the subject of ongoing controversy, as it was being held during ongoing anti-government protests, with the support of the government.[162][163] Anonymous posted a press release criticising the decision to hold the race despite the violent crackdowns,[164] and posted data of ticket sales for the event with sensitive information — particularly the credit card numbers of spectators — redacted. Other sites related to the sport and the Bahraini government were also the subject of distributed denial-of-service attack.[165]

Occupy Philippines edit

On April 21, 2012 busabos of Anonymous Philippines attacked the China University Media Union website, as a retaliation against alleged Chinese hackers who defaced the University of the Philippines website, which claimed that the Scarborough Shoal is Chinese territory. Anonymous left a message that the Scarborough Shoal is the Philippines' territory. On April 25, 2012, busabos of Anonymous #OccupyPhilippines warned that they had not yet started their attack against Chinese websites. The members that can be counted in hand called the cyber attacks were a result of the 2012 Scarborough Shoal standoff.[166][167]

Operation India edit

On May 17, 2012, Anonymous launched an attack against the websites of the India Supreme Court and the then-ruling Congress party in reaction to internet service providers blocking popular video sites like Vimeo as well as file-sharing sites like The Pirate Bay.[168]

Operation Quebec edit

Main articles: 2012 Quebec student protests and Bill 78
 
Guy Fawkes mask seen at a protest in Montreal on May 22, 2012, against Bill 78 as part of the 2012 Quebec protests.

On May 20, 2012, Anonymous launched Opération Québec in reaction to the adoption of Bill 78 by the government of Quebec, an act restricting the freedom of association in this Canadian province after several weeks of student protests.[169] A video was released urging the governing Liberal Party of Quebec to let the citizens protest.

On May 21, the websites of the Liberal Party of Quebec, of the Ministry of Public Security of Quebec as well as a government site on police ethics were DDoSed.[170][171]

Anonymous then threatened to disrupt the Formula 1 Grand Prix of Canada, to be held between June 7 and 10 in Montreal, the same way they did for the Bahrain Grand Prix. They claimed to have accessed personal information stored in the F1 website.[172]

On May 30, Anonymous leaked a video called "DVD Gouverne (mental)", a 2 hours long footage from Sagard, Quebec where a party for the wife of Paul Desmarais of Power Corporation had been held in 2008.[173] Among the guests were former US president George H. Bush, premier Jean Charest of Quebec, former Canadian prime ministers Jean Chrétien and Brian Mulroney, former Québec premier Lucien Bouchard, former governor general of Canada Adrienne Clarkson, journalist Charlie Rose, singers Robert Charlebois and Hiromi Omura, lyricist Luc Plamondon and conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin.[174]

Operation Cyprus edit

An Anonymous video was released on June 8, 2012, claiming that an attack against the government of Cyprus would take place due to reasons of government corruption, media misinformation and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement[175] On June 26, DDoS attacks took place against 47 websites of the Republic of Cyprus, which were taken down for 15 hours.[176] The government stated that it was a coordinated attack by Anonymous.

Operation Japan edit

On June 26, 2012, the website of the Japanese Business Federation, was taken offline, with Anonymous claiming this was part of "Operation Japan". The reason for their action was the new amendments to the copyright laws in Japan.[177] For those found to have illegally copied material such as music, DVDs or Blu-ray discs, fines could run as high as $25,000 and carry a sentence of two years in prison, according to CNET Japan.[178]

Operation Anaheim edit

On July 25, 2012, Anonymous launched an online protest in response to the Anaheim police shooting. It began with the release of the personal information of some of the top officers, including police chief John Welter.[179]

AAPT attack edit

In July 2012, Anonymous hacked Australian ISP AAPT and later leaked 40 GB of partially redacted customer data to protest data retention policy.[180]

Attack on the Mexican PRI party edit

On July 6, 2012, as part of the Yo Soy 132 student protest movement, the Mexican branch of Anonymous defaced the PRI party website, the party that held the power of the country for 70 years and that the 132 movement accused of human rights violations during that period. Anonymous hacked the site leaving slogans against the electoral fraud and the imminent return of the PRI party to power.[181][182][183]

Peña's birthday present edit

On July 20, 2012, a second attack on a PRI related website was performed as part of the Yo Soy 132 student protest movement, by the Mexican branch of Anonymous. This time Anonymous did it on the birthday of president elect Peña Nieto, and as "a gift" they left a picture of Peña next to slogans against electoral fraud and a penis shaped birthday cake.[184]

Operation Myanmar edit

On August 10, 2012, Anonymous launched a DDoS attack and defacement of more than 100 Myanmar websites, all hackers from all over the world joined this operation as a protest for killing Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar.[185] Myanmar's hackers also made a lot of counterattacks.[186]

Uganda LGBT rights edit

On August 13, 2012, Anonymous hacked two Uganda government websites to protest the country's strict anti-gay laws.[187]

Hong Kong National Education edit

In mid-September 2012, Anonymous hackers threatened the Hong Kong government organization, known as National Education Centre. In their online video, Anonymous members claimed responsibility for leaking classified related government documents and taking down the National Education Centre website, after the Hong Kong government has repeatedly ignored months of wide-scale protests against the establishment of a new core Moral and National Education curriculum for children from 6–18 years of age. The new syllabus has come under heavy criticism and international media attention, as it does not award students based on how much factual information is learned, but instead grades and evaluates students based on their level of emotional attachment and approval of the Chinese Communist Party.[188]

Philippine Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 edit

Anonymous Philippines launched a series of attacks against several websites of the Philippine government to protest against the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012. The hackers urged for the revisions of the cybercrime law. On September 26, Anonymous defaced several websites, including that of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and the Philippine National Police.[189][190] They claim that the law violates freedom of expression and described the law as "most notorious act ever witnessed in the cyber-history". On October 1, they hacked again several government websites in an operation dubbed as "Bloody Monday" and asked for "a revision of the [Cybercrime Law] for the betterment of the Filipino netizens."[189] In February 2014 the Philippine Supreme Court ruled out the online libel to be unconstitutional because of its some provisions.[191]

Release of Westboro Baptist Church Personal Information edit

Anonymous re-posted the names, addresses, and emails of the prominent members of the Westboro Baptist Church on December 16, 2012, due to announced plans to picket the funerals of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting,[192] followed by saying that God would protect their site. They also caused several DDOS attacks on the site itself, hacked the social media accounts of the members involved, and started a whitehouse.org petition to get the Church legally branded as a Hate Group.[193][194]

2013 edit

Steubenville rape case edit

Main article: Steubenville High School rape case

In early 2013, the group released an incriminating video, photographs and tweets from the Steubenville High School football team allegedly involved in a gang rape of an underage girl in rural Ohio. They also released a number of e-mails and photos hacked from the e-mail account of one of the football programs boosters, whom they alleged to have helped cover up the case.[195]

Attack on the Mexican Army website edit

See also: Yo Soy 132 student protests

On January 13, 2013, the SEDENA (the Mexican Army) website was penetrated by the Anonymous branch in Mexico, and all the information found on the vulnerable servers was disclosed (including usernames and passwords). The content of the site was changed for a video with images of the riots that occurred during Peña Nieto's presidential inauguration (on December 1, 2013), and a voice in the background pronounces the Zapatista manifesto. The reason behind the attack was in retaliation for what they called the return of an oppressive government imposed by electoral fraud.[196]

Aaron Swartz Suicide edit

In January 2013, the group attacked and defaced the United States Sentencing Commission website turning it into a game page repeatedly after which traffic to the website made it crash following the suicide of Reddit co-founder and activist Aaron Swartz. Swartz was accused of stealing materials from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with intent to distribute them freely.[197]

Federal Reserve edit

The Federal Reserve was hacked by Anonymous in February 2013.[198]

Operation North Korea edit

See also: 2013 Korean crisis and Cyberactivism in North Korea

On April 2, 2013, a professional IT webzine BGR carried out an article stating that hacker group Anonymous has started the 'Operation Free Korea.' This calls for 'controversial leader Kim Jong-un [to] resign', 'install free democracy' 'abandon its nuclear ambitions' 'uncensored Internet access' etc. The hackers also proclaimed that if North Korea do not accede to their demand, they will wage "Cyber War."[199] On April 3, 2013, hacker group identifying itself as Anonymous claimed it had stolen all 15,000 user passwords as part of a cyberwar against the DPRK.[200] A few days later, Anonymous claimed to have hacked into the Uriminzokkiri main website, and the Twitter and Flickr pages representing the website.[201]

Instead, a picture posted Thursday on the North's Flickr site shows Kim's face with a pig-like snout and a drawing of Mickey Mouse on his chest. Underneath, the text reads: "Threatening world peace with ICBMs and Nuclear weapons/Wasting money while his people starve to death." It found common ground with its alleged arch-enemy and hacktivist The Jester in which the latter had claimed responsibility for the cyberattacks against Air Koryo and other North Korean websites.[202]

On June 22, 2013, Anonymous claimed that it managed to steal military documents from North Korea, and that the documents would be released on June 25, the day the Korean War started. However, no such documents appear to have been released.[203]


Op Israel edit

OpIsrael was a coordinated cyber-attack by anti-Israel individuals and Anonymous-affiliated groups that target websites perceived as Israeli[204][205] The attack, mostly denial of service assaults, was coordinated to coincide with Holocaust Remembrance Day.[206] OpIsrael's stated goal was to "erase Israel from the internet".[207][208] The attack targeted several government online operations banking and commerce sites, but most of the cyber attacks were repelled, with no significant damage done, although an attack may have succeeded in temporarily taking down the Central Bureau of Statistics site. Media and small business sites were also targeted, and some attacks succeeded in temporarily replacing some of homepages with anti-Israel slogans.[208][209] However, there were several Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, and web sites from the alleged hackers making false claims to have "caused Israel to lose $5 billion" and "Tel Aviv loses all Internet connection. It was one of Anonymous's biggest failures"[210]

Nir Goldshlager a famous "white hat" hacker and CEO of Break Security Goldshlager, told reporters that OpIsrael hackers "lacked the sophistication and knowledge...while they told many lies to enhance their reputations."[210] Israeli hackers responded to OpIsrael by taking down the OpIsrael website and replacing it with pro-Israel statements and the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah. In addition, they brought down anti-Israeli sites like Hezbollah's and Islamic Jihad's websites and targeted servers belonging to hackers and broke into the personal computers of the European leaders of the operation and told them to look for the facts and not believe everything they see on the Internet.[210][211]

2012 Cleveland police shooting incident edit

In December 2012, Cleveland police fired 137 rounds at a car, killing its two occupants.[212] Anonymous responded in April 2013 by releasing the personal information of the officers involved.[213] 12 officers were later fired or disciplined for their role in the shooting, although criminal charges are still being considered by a grand jury.[212]

Rehtaeh Parsons edit

In response to the suicide of Rehtaeh Parsons and the lack of action on the part of Canadian authorities, Anonymous threatened to release the personal information of the rapists. However, the group claimed to back down from the threat following pleas from Parsons' mother, Leah.[214] The group has staged protests outside the Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters in Halifax.[215]

 
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Sabah Crisis edit

In March 2013 during the Lahad Datu standoff tension in Sabah due to the clashes between the Royal Army of the Sultanate of Sulu and Malaysian security Forces. A Cyberwar sparks between Philippines and Malaysia. According to the Philippine Cyber Army the Malaysian hackers appeared to have started the attacks and defacement on Philippine websites, posting online threats and videos meaning to send a message to the Filipinos to keep away from the region of Sabah.[216] In response to their attacks the Philippine Cyber Army defaced 175 Malaysian sites (including state-owned pages). The Mcafee Lab Researchers in their 2013 Threats Report placed the Philippine Cyber Army in the list of Global Threats on hacktivism.[217] The Philippine Cyber Army are close to Anonymous.[217]

Philippine Coast Guard incident edit

On May 9, 2013, a number of Philippine Coast Guard soldiers fired at an unarmed Taiwanese fishing boat, Guang Da Xing No. 28, and killed a Taiwanese fisherman in international waters. On May 10, Hackers recognizing themselves as "AnonTAIWAN" hacked into Philippine Official websites asking for the Philippines' government to apologize to Taiwan's government. They interfered with government official websites of the Philippines, causing inconveniences for the Philippine General Election. Its resulted in great difficulty and delay in making general access through the Philippine government websites at the time of elections.[218]

EDL edit

In May 2013, Anonymous published the personal information of various English Defence League members online in what Anonymous said was the first part of an attempt to destroy the far right protest movement.[219]

Public NSA documents edit

On June 7, 2013, Anonymous released what was claimed to be secret documents related to the NSA. In reality, the documents were already publicly available.[220]

Hawthorne dog shooting incident edit

On June 30, 2013, a Hawthorne, California police officer, Jeffrey Salmon of Torrance, was filmed shooting a dog and arresting his owner. Anonymous responded by issuing a video threat to the police department.[221] The city website also suffered a DDoS attack, although it is unclear if Anonymous was involved.[222]

Nigeria anti-gay laws edit

On July 4, 2013, Anonymous hacked the national website of Nigeria after the country passed laws that would make homosexuality punishable by up to 14 years in prison.[223]

The GCSB edit

Anonymous NZ, a New Zealand-based offshoot of Anonymous, carried out its first operation by staging a DDoS on the web site of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), following the passage of law changes that allowed the electronic intelligence agency to surveil New Zealand citizens. In addition, the web sites of politicians who supported the law changes were also shut down by Anonymous NZ.[224]

Operation Singapore edit

Main article: 2013 Singapore cyberattacks

From August 20, 2013, to November 5, 2013, the group launched attacks on various websites including Ang Mo Kio Town Council, National Museum of Singapore which they leaked 3,600 emails, IP addresses and names from,[225] PAP Community Foundation, and The Straits Times.[226]

National Party-linked websites attacks edit

Anonymous New Zealand claimed attacks on National Party-linked websites in protest against the GCSB Bill have had no thanks from spied-on internet mogul Kim Dotcom.[224]

Support of anti-PDAF movement edit

Anonymous Philippines has hacked 115 government websites, prompting Philippine law enforcement agencies to go after them, citing the unnecessary use of hacking.[227] The NBI has been ordered to probe into the hacking of government websites.[228] While a few Senators have downplayed the attacks, they were willing to listen to their grievances,[229] Senator Trillanes IV expressed alarm with the group's capabilities, suggesting the possibility of the group to hack government websites since "it could compromise State operations and data storage."[229]

2014 edit

#OpJustina edit

In response to the controversial custodial case of Justina Pelletier in which the Boston's Children Hospital alleged her parents of child abuse while Justina was believed to have contracted a mitochondrial disorder, Anonymous performed DDOS attacks against the hospital. As a result, a member was arrested after an unsuccessful flight attempt to Cuba.[230][231]

Operation Ferguson edit

Anonymous posted a video warning to the Ferguson, Missouri, police, admonishing them for fatally shooting Mike Brown, an unarmed African American teenager, and swearing revenge if any protesters demonstrating against the police are harmed. The group, which has adopted the Guy Fawkes mask as its symbol and frequently becomes involved in contentious legal matters, said in the video late Sunday Brown's death Saturday is just the latest example of police misconduct having deadly big consequences.[232]

On August 12, a series of doxes were released against Jon Belmar, the St. Louis County Police Chief. There were two reasons for this target. 1) Because he refused to release the name of the officer who shot Mike Brown and 2) Because he challenged Anonymous, calling their threats hollow. A Twitter account affiliated with Anonymous struck back with information regarding Belmar's location, phone number, family members, and their accounts on social media.[233] That same account also released information claiming to be the dox of the officer who shot Brown, but wound up being incorrect.[234]

Operation Hong Kong edit

Main article: 2014 Hong Kong protests

Anonymous posted a video warning on News2Share[235] to the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on October 1 announcing the engagement of Operation Hong Kong, condemning the government's police's use of force in the ongoing protests.[236] The group stated that it supports the protesters' fight for democracy[237] and promised the government that if the protesters are further harmed or harassed they would attack all web based assets of the Hong Kong Government including but not limited to the taking down of government websites, seizing of government databases, and releasing the personal information on government officials. Anonymous stated that it is time for democracy for the people of Hong Kong and condemns the police for harming the citizens and calls for them to instead protect the citizens.

On October 2, there have been reports that Anonymous have already taken over a few company websites in Hong Kong in accordance to a Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily.[238]

The Hong Kong Government responded that its servers and web assets are functioning normally, and have arranged to strengthen its cyber defences. The Government further stated that it is prepared against any attempts by Anonymous hackers on its servers and web assets.[239]

Operation Infosurge edit

November 8, Anonymous Leyte began hacking Philippine government websites to protest the alleged incompetence government officials exhibited in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan).[240]

More than 10 government websites were defaced by the said group and 33 more were brought rendered inaccessible, for up to 7 hours[241] and a week before, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) was reportedly hacked[242] with some 2,000 email addresses, usernames, and password hashes released on Pastebin.[243]

The "Operation Infosurge" was done during the Haiyan Anniversary, which was expected to be a day of prayer and thanksgiving, but turned out to be a day of protest from different "online" groups and organizations in Philippines.[244]

2015 edit

Charlie Hebdo response edit

In response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, the Anonymous released a statement offering condolences to the families affected by it and denounced the attacks as an "inhuman assault" on freedom of expression. They also addressed the terrorists: "[a] message for al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, and other terrorists – we are declaring war against you, the terrorists." As such, Anonymous plans to target Jihadist websites and social media accounts linked to supporting Islamic terrorism with the aim of disrupting them and shutting them down.[245]

Gas station hacks edit

On February 11, Anonymous hacked at least 1 gas station automated tank gauge, changing the online name from "DIESEL" to "WE_ARE_LEGION". Theregister.co.uk stated that a hacker with this kind of access could shut down the entire station by "spoofing the reported fuel level, generating false alarms, and locking the monitoring service out of the system".[246]

Operation Death Eaters edit

During the week of February 14, Anonymous launched Operation Death Eaters for collating evidence against international pedophile rings and their severe abuse of children to bring them to justice.[247]

Operation Stop Reclamation edit

On April 2, 2015. The Pro-Philippine Hackers of Anonymous Philippines attacked and defaced a total of 132 Chinese government, educational and commercial websites in response to China's reclamation work in territorial disputes in the South China Sea, parts of which Manila calls the West Philippine Sea.[248]

Operation Anon Down edit

On July 17, 2015, an Anon in a Guy Fawkes mask was shot and killed by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer. As a result, Anonymous websites and YouTube channels vowed revenge, initiating Operation Anon Down. The RCMP website was reported down nationwide on July 19.[249][250]

Operation StormFront edit

On July 21, 2015, Anonymous posted a video claiming that due to "Racism, Antisemitism, Islamophobia and Holocaust Denial" they were going to attack the website Stormfront.[251] This website is a white-supremacist website run by former KKK Leader Don Black. The attack was planned for August 1, 2015.[252]

Operation KKK (OPKKK) edit

Operation KKK says it has identifying data on as many as 1,000 KKK members and supporters. On Oct. 22, 2015, an Anonymous-associated Twitter account announced that the hacking collective had accessed a Klan-associated Twitter account and promised that they would expose about 1,000 Klan members by name. A later news release promised that the operation would release "names and Web sites, new and old" of "more than 1000″ members of the hate group. According to the Daily Dot, Anonymous later released "a few hundred names, Facebook pages, and Google+ accounts."[253][254]

2016 edit

Operation Comelec edit

Main article: Commission on Elections data breach

Anonymous Philippines hacked the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) website to force them to add security to vote count machines (VCMs). The hacking was followed by a voters' personal information leak,[255] led by LulzSec Pilipinas,[256] who placed them in the website "wehaveyourdata.com". Paul Biteng, a 20-year old information technology (IT) graduate and one of the hackers of the COMELEC, website was soon arrested by National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) agents.[257]

Operation Single Gateway edit

After the failure of its single gateway system, the Thai government proposed amendments to the existing Computer Crime Act in May 2016, which they approved on December 16. Anonymous declared cyberwar on Thailand after the passing of these amendments. The amendments allowed the government to censor websites and intercept private communications without a court order or warrant. Anonymous started a Facebook group called "citizens against single gateway" to protest against these acts. Other anonymous members DDoSed several Thailand government websites. One of these F5-powered DDoS attacks hit Thailand's defense website on December 19. It was later revealed that hackers also breached the Thai Police Office website on December 17. The website of the Tourism and Sports was also targeted and attacked on December 23. Several Thai citizens who were part of anonymous ranging from ages 17–20 were arrested.[258]

2017 edit

Operation Darknet Relaunch edit

Visitors to more than 10,000 Tor-based websites were met with an alarming announcement on February 3, 11:50 AM EST: "Hello, Freedom Hosting II, you have been hacked." A group affiliating itself with Anonymous had compromised servers at Freedom Hosting II, a popular service for hosting websites accessible only through Tor.

Anonymous claimed they stole 75 GB worth of files and 2.6 GB of databases and that some of the data stored on the Freedom Hosting II servers contained child pornography.[259][260]

According to Sarah Jamie Lewis, an independent anonymity and privacy researcher who spotted the mass hack as part of her regular scans of the Onion space (Dark Web sites running on the Tor network), Freedom Hosting II was hosting an estimated 20% of all websites on the Dark Web.[261][262]

2018 edit

Unconfirmed hack of Gabon's official websites edit

Anonymous had reportedly attacked at least 70 Gabon's official sites, putting them offline. They said that their actions 'targeted dictatorships', however there was no independent confirmation of the Anonymous claim.[263]

2019 edit

Chilean Army emails leak edit

Anonymous accessed six email accounts of the Chilean Army and revealed 2.34 gigabytes of data related to intelligence, operations, finances and international relations generated and received by those emails from 2015 to 2019. The leaked data encompassed a total of 44 emails, 1,340 documents, 401 images, 53 text files, 10 webpages, nine folders and three videos. Anonymous also published a series of press articles, internal newsletters, travel information, judicial notices and resolutions, purchase quotes, seminars and other files of the institution. As a result, in an official statement, the Chilean Army had activated its cybersecurity protocols to prevent similar acts from happening in the future, while pointing out that the affected accounts were provided by an external company which were being used to interact, share and/or send and receive data with suppliers or institutions with a regular relationship with the Chilean Army.[264]

#OpHongKong edit

During the 2019 Hong Kong protests and the siege of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Anonymous announced its hack on four Chinese MongoDB databases, in which they had donated to a data breach notification service vigilante.pw. In a media statement they warned that "all is possible, nothing is secure", and "if Hong Kong is suppressed then China would eye Taiwan as the next target, which can precede a World War 3", while referencing the Terminator movie quote "There’s no fate but what we make for ourselves".[265]

2020 edit

Pro-Taiwan hacks edit

In February Anonymous hacked the United Nations' website and created a page for Taiwan, a country which has not had a seat at the UN since 1971.[266] The hacked page featured the Flag of the Republic of China, the KMT emblem, a Taiwan Independence flag, the Anonymous logo, and embedded YouTube videos such as the National Anthem of the Republic of China and the closing score for the 2019 film Avengers: Endgame titled "It's Been a Long, Long Time", along with a caption. The defacement lasted for at least 14 hours, and the hacked server belonged to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.[267][268][269]

Anonymous had also hacked the World Health Organization's website and added identical pages seen during the UN hack, alongside numerous "jukebox" pages that contain assorted Anonymous videos such as that of a statement by a Taiwanese member of the decentralised organization saying that China has broken many previous peace treaties in the past including in Tibet, and a scene from 2018 film Maze Runner: The Death Cure. The group has left a cryptic message "UN Have you gotten the Korean memos?" wherein the "Korean memos" is in reference to a peace plan proposed in the book "Stop North Korea!: A Radical New Approach to Solving the North Korea Standoff" written by former Inha University professor Shepherd Iverson. In the book he suggested "buying out North Korea" to achieve re-unification of the Korean peninsula. During an interview with Taiwan News, they stated that the original goals of hacking the United Nation's website was to promote Shepherd Iverson's aforementioned peace plan along with a modified version by hacktivist Cyber Anakin.[270][271]

A few days later the group hacked a Chinese governmental website and inserts a portrait collage featuring the presidents of Republic of China. Aside from putting out a manifesto stating that "we speak for the people", they also taunted that the knowledge of HTML is sufficient enough to re-take mainland China. The deface page also included unrelated references such as an embedded Reddit post regarding the stepping down of former r/HITMAN subreddit moderator "misconfig_exe" due to alleged mod abuse, and the five demands of 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.[272][273]

#PLDTHacked edit

On May 28, 2020, the Twitter account of PLDT's customer service was hacked by a Filipino anonymous group as a protest to the terrible internet connection serviced by PLDT. The hackers also changed the profile's name to "PLDT Doesn't Care".[274]

The first tweet by the hackers states: "As the pandemic arises, Filipinos need fast internet to communicate with their loved ones. Do your job. The corrupt fear us, the honest support us, the heroic join us. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget . Expect us."[275]

#BlackLivesMatter Movement edit

Anonymous declared a large hacking sequence on May 28, three days after the murder of George Floyd. An individual claiming to be Anonymous stated that "We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us." in a now-deleted video. Anonymous addressed police brutality and vowed that they "will be exposing your many crimes to the world". It is suspected that Anonymous are the cause for the downtime and public suspension of the Minneapolis Police Department website and its parent site, the website of the City of Minneapolis. The webpage belonging to a minor United Nations agency was also turned into a memorial for George Floyd.[276][277]

BlueLeaks edit

Main article: BlueLeaks

Anonymous claimed responsibility for stealing and leaking a trove of documents collectively nicknamed 'BlueLeaks'. The 269-gigabyte collection was published by a leak-focused activist group known as Distributed Denial of Secrets.[278]

Bolsonaro hack and support of Julian Assange edit

In June 4, a group of hackers has released personal information on Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and his family and cabinet. Justice minister André Mendonça asked the Federal Police to begin an investigation. Then a parliamentary inquiry by the Brazilian Congress investigating the issue of fake news on the internet issued a report showing that the federal government used R$2 million in public money to fund advertising on several websites, some of them responsible for supporting the president. Anonymous took down Atlanta Police Department's website via DDoS, and defaced websites such as a Filipino governmental webpage and that of Brookhaven National Labs. They expressed support for Julian Assange and press freedom, while briefly "taking a swing" against Facebook, Reddit and Wikipedia for having 'engaged in shady practices behind our prying eyes'. In the case of Reddit, they posted a link to a court document describing the possible involvement of a moderator of a large traffic subreddit (r/news) in an online harassment-related case.[279][280]

#UgandanLivesMatter edit

On November 20, 2020, the Uganda Police website was hacked as it was down for a number of days. Anonymous came out and claimed the hack in a tweet in response to the violent crackdown on protesters following the arrest of presidential candidate, popstar Bobi Wine. "Uganda: Police (@PoliceUg) have murdered at least 28 people, arrested 577, and injured dozens more with live ammunition, beatings, tear gas, and water cannons.  At a protest challenging President Yoweri Museveni's 34-year reign. UgandaIsBleeding ugandanlivesmatter." read the retweet by Anonymous International account. The first tweet about the hack was done by a claimed member of Anonymous stating that Uganda police force website has been taken offline in response to the violent crackdown on protesters. They should have expected us.. "[281]

2021 edit

#OpsWakeUp21 edit

Anonymous announced cyber-attacks on at least five Malaysian websites including that of Johor and Sabah state governments as well as the International Trade and Industry Ministry. As a result, 11 individuals were nabbed as suspects.[282]

Operation Jane and Epik hack edit

See also: Texas Heartbeat Act and 2021 Epik data breach

The Texas Heartbeat Act, a law which bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, came into effect in Texas on September 1, 2021. The law relies on private citizens to file civil lawsuits against anyone who performs or induces an abortion, or aids and abets one, once "cardiac activity" in an embryo can be detected via transvaginal ultrasound, which is usually possible beginning at around six weeks of pregnancy.[283] Shortly after the law came into effect, anti-abortion organizations set up websites to collect "whistleblower" reports of suspected violators of the bill.[284]

On September 3, Anonymous announced "Operation Jane", a campaign focused on stymying those who attempted to enforce the law by "exhaust[ing] the investigational resources of bounty hunters, their snitch sites, and online gathering spaces until no one is able to maintain data integrity".[284] On September 11, the group hacked the website of the Republican Party of Texas, replacing it with text about Anonymous, an invitation to join Operation Jane, and a Planned Parenthood donation link.[285]

On September 13, Anonymous released a large quantity of private data belonging to Epik, a domain registrar and web hosting company known for providing services to websites that host far-right, neo-Nazi, and other extremist content.[286] Epik had briefly provided services to an abortion "whistleblower" website run by the anti-abortion Texas Right to Life organization, but the reporting form went offline on September 4 after Epik told the group they had violated their terms of service by collecting private information about third parties.[287] The data included domain purchase and transfer details, account credentials and logins, payment history, employee emails, and unidentified private keys.[288] The hackers claimed they had obtained "a decade's worth of data" which included all customers and all domains ever hosted or registered through the company, and which included poorly encrypted passwords and other sensitive data stored in plaintext.[288][289] Later on September 13, the Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) organization said they were working to curate the allegedly leaked data for public download, and said that it consisted of "180 gigabytes of user, registration, forwarding and other information".[290] Publications including The Daily Dot and The Record by Recorded Future subsequently confirmed the veracity of the hack and the types of data that had been exposed.[291][289]

Concurrently, the group announced that they have hacked the accounts of German conspiracy theorist Attila Hildmann; as a result one of its Twitter accounts @AnonNewsDE has been suspended and in turn caused reactions from politicians such as the MEP of the German Pirate Party, Patrick Breyer who had recommended the microblogging service Mastodon as an alternative. The hacker collective wrote that the blocking does not restrict the group in its work. The suspension caused the hashtag #FreeAnonNewsDe to be trending on Twitter in Germany.[292][293]

Hack of Chinese websites edit

Starting from Sept 30, Anonymous hacked a Chinese government tourism promotion website and uploaded several documents and images into its file directory, which was shared to Reddit by a user 'Allez-opi_omi'. The hack lasted for about three days and was divided in three rounds where in the first round, they posted items pertaining to Anonymous emblem, the Taiwanese flag, the Taiwanese anthem, a pro-Taiwan independence banner, photo of the Chinese medical whistleblower Li Wenliang, and memes such as that of mocking Epik CEO Rob Monster, that of calling people to fight the COVID-19 pandemic like Bruce Lee, and that of showing the leader of China's Xi Jinping imposed on the body of an Apple executive introducing the COVID-19, COVID-19 R, COVID-19 Pro, and COVID-19 Pro Max, instead of the latest iPhone 13 models. They also posted a document from Anonymous Malaysia accusing an "Instagram/TikTok influencer" that calls himself "Kuaanzii" of being a "serial rapist" who had allegedly victimized over one hundred women, while naming an individual "Neo Yeaken" as an accomplice and included links to relevant Malaysian local news articles in the document. Finally a cryptic meme that reads "Things are about to get moar snippy!" was posted.[294][295]

In the second round of the hack, they uploaded the Tank Man photo alongside an edited version that shows the text of "When you just started a game and you're trying to figure out how strong your character is.", together with recreations of the picture in various video games. Aside from uploading photos of cartoon character Winnie the Pooh and that of Taiwan's national emblem, they also included a page titled "BONUS - Throwback Thursday: Anonymous 2020 Christmas Gift!" which includes links to hacked pages of the Football Federation of the Russia's Astrakhan region. In turn, they contained images of Russian dissidents, more Taiwan symbols, Milk Tea Alliance memes, and other symbols of defiance against autocratic regimes.[296][297]

In the final round of the hack against the Chinese tourism website, Anonymous posted the images of Presidents of Republic of China, the anti-communist song "Go and Reclaim the Mainland" (反攻大陸去), and memes including that of exhorting Taiwan to redress the 1987 Lieyu Massacre in order to "truly become Numbah Wan", a non-sequitur photo that reads "The soul of Afghanistan shall live long and prosper" which seemingly supports the fallen Islamic Republic of Afghanistan against Taliban, a Ready Player One-related meme that takes a swipe at Chinese Communist Party (CCP) general secretary Xi Jinping's handling of the pandemic where it reads "All homies coming at CCP because of how Pooh mismanaged the COVID", and a wojak meme that poked fun at the Marxist–Leninist subreddit r/GenZedong and the vexed reaction of their members to the hack. Other than these, they also posted a message delivered by former US President John F. Kennedy to the Chinese-American Businessmen's Committee Meeting in Chicago in 1960 that described the communist regime in Beijing as "the totalitarian government which temporarily rules the Chinese mainland" and affirmed U.S. opposition to China's admission to the United Nations. They uploaded a 255-page U.S. patent application published in 2014 for anti-pathogen treatments, which is made by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology's inventor. Finally, Anonymous uploaded a post stating that "We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not Forgive. We do not Forget. Expect Us." and closed by announcing, "The Internet Hate Machine hates (and will always hate) fascists and rapists."[298][299]

Next, they have hacked the Chinese Qinghai Province's official website through privilege escalation where they posted contents such as Taiwanese independence flag, a five-page manifesto that starts with a silhouette of Rick Astley and lyrics from his song "Never Gonna Give You Up"; the manifesto included references to the "Taiwan numbah wan" and "West Taiwan" memes, an illustration of Winnie the Pooh, a defense of Li Wenliang, and the slogans "One World, One Dream, Free Tibet," "Free Hong Kong, Revolution of our times," and "Milk Tea Alliance Forever!" It describes Mao Zedong as a "worse monster than Hitler and Stalin combined" and calls for a boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. They also uploaded the Tibet independence flag, a political compass meme mocking Mike Parson, the governor of Missouri, USA and a red "banhammer" meme, that juxtaposes the red field and five gold stars of the Chinese flag with a golden gavel. The banhammer meme was directed at Reddit as a protest of the shadowbanning of one of the group's accounts.[300]

Hack of Brazilian municipal website edit

The Brazilian branch of the hacking group hacked the website of the Brumadinho City Hall and left a video to commemorate the dam disaster that occurred on 25 January 2019 which caused the deaths of 270 people.[301]

Hack of United Nations website during Christmas edit

Nearing Christmas, the hacking collective posted pro-Taiwan materials such as Taiwanese national flag, anthem and emblem into the UN Networks on Migration website. They also posted other materials such as the closing score for the 2019 film Avengers: Endgame titled "It's Been a Long, Long Time", reminiscent of the 2020 hack, and the music video of Mandopop song Fragile by Malaysian rapper Namewee and Taiwan-based Australian singer Kimberley Chen. Next, they expressed solidarity to the victims of December 2021 Malaysian floods.

Besides that, they posted HTML codes displaying the Anonymous' previous work, and a peace plan idea in attempt to halt the Russo-Ukrainian War in Ukraine. In the latter, they called for a referendum on whether to presumably follow the existing Minsk Protocol or hand over the separatist-controlled territories to a UN peacekeeping administration. Later, a second referendum in the separatist regions would then ask voters to choose to reunite with Ukraine, gain independence, or join Russia.[302]

2022 edit

Polar Research Institute of China hack edit

The hacking collective defaced a website belonging to the Polar Research Institute of China with pro-Taiwan slogans, Taiwan's national flag and emblem, The Anti-Communist and Anti-Russian Aggression Song, and the music video of Mandopop song Fragile. They also dedicated some of their defacements in attempt to propagate solutions to the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis, including by calling for the creation of a "neutral grouping" of countries "wedged between NATO and Russia" that would include Ukraine, Finland, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Moldova. Anonymous argued that the so-called "neutral security belt" could serve as an alliance similar to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) or the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) that acts as a cordon sanitaire between NATO and CSTO countries in order to "assuage Russia's fears without NATO losing its face."

They embedded Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft senior fellow Anatol Lieven's paper "Ending the Threat of War in Ukraine" at the defacement page, while concurring with him on the possibility for a referendum in Ukraine's Donbass region on its ultimate fate, although reminiscent of a preceding hacking operation by the group and differing from the senior fellow's paper, they included the possibility of handing over the territories of Donbass to a United Nations peacekeeper administration in the hypothetical referendum.[303]

Convention of Biological Diversity website hack edit

Anonymous hacked into the website for the Clearing-House Mechanism of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CHM), which is a part of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) website. The CBD falls under the UN Environment Programme.

In there, they published materials such as the usual Anonymous logo, a photo of a person wearing a black hoodie and a Guy Fawkes mask, contents that appeared in previous hacks such as the "Taiwan Numbah Wan!" meme, Taiwanese flag and national symbols, proposals to defuse the Russo-Ukrainian crisis, and the music video of Mandopop song Fragile.

Besides that, they included two screenshots of an apparent hack of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) website, and a link to an article calling for an "Operation Warp Speed 2.0" to develop new methods to battle the COVID-19 virus, together with an embedded video that introduces a group of MIT-developed experimental antiviral drugs called DRACO, whose acronym stands for double-stranded RNA activated caspase oligomerizer.[304]

#OpSamanthaSmith edit

During the hack of the official website for the Pingxiang County branch of the CCP based in Hebei Province's Xingtai City, Anonymous announced the launch of "Operation Samantha Smith" or #OpSamanthaSmith, a reference to the 1980s child peace activist. The operation was presumably dedicated into resolving the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis.

Besides posting materials such as the Anonymous group symbols, flag of the Republic of China, the picture of tennis star Peng Shuai, and a bonus page titled "Ah Girls Go Army!", the hacking collective threatened in red text to take hostage of industrial control systems if the NATO-Russia tensions in Ukraine continues to worsen. In an apparent warning meant for Russia, Anonymous wrote that the "sole party to be blamed if we escalate on that, will be the same one who started it in the very first place with troop buildups, childish threats, and waves of unreasonable ultimatums."

Anonymous also urged the United Nations to immediately deploy peacekeepers on "at least the Ukrainian side of the frontline in Donbass" under the basis of UN Resolution 337 (V) to "prevent any further provocations" by any side.[305]

In the aftermath of Russia's recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic and in accordance to the hacking collective's threats to take hostage of industrial control systems, they conducted a small hack on a Russian Modbus device which they've announced on a hacked Chinese cultural website, although early on Anonymous kept the location of the hack ambiguous.

According to Anonymous, the Modbus device was said to be a Schneider Electric's Modicon M251 logic controller, and that they were previously "playing nice" so not to give Russia a casus belli but because of the subsequent 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, #OpSamanthaSmith was presumably deemed as a failure and Anonymous would start attacking Russian websites and systems as retaliation.[306]


Operations during the Russian invasion of Ukraine edit

See also: Russo-Ukrainian War, 2022 Ukraine cyberattacks, 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis, Timeline of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Anonymous and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

Anonymous declared that they had launched 'cyber operations' against the Russian Federation, in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine ordered by Russian president Vladimir Putin. Websites targeted include the state-controlled RT.[307]

Anonymous is also believed to be responsible for hacking several Russian state TV channels; many users on Twitter and TikTok uploaded videos showing channels playing Ukrainian music and displaying pro-Ukraine images, flags, and symbols.[308] They had hacked Russian television services in order to broadcast footage of the war in Ukraine, and systems believed to be related to Russian space agency Roscosmos where they defaced its website and leaked mission files.[309][310][311]

A yacht allegedly belonging to Vladimir Putin was reportedly hacked by the group where they changed its call sign to “FCKPTN” and setting its target destination to “hell”. They broadcast a troll face picture through a hacked Russian military radio.[312][313]

At least 2,500 Russian and Belarusian targets were reportedly hacked by Anonymous. These included more than three hundred websites of Russian government agencies, state media outlets, banks, as well as websites of leading Belarusian banks such as Belarusbank, Priorbank and Belinvestbank. They also hacked a website belonging to Chechnya's regional government. They also warned that “If things continue as they have been in the past few days, the cyber war will be expanded and our measures will be massively increased. This is the final warning to the entire Russian government. Don’t mess with Anonymous.”[314][315]

In response to the seizure of Ukraine's Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant by Russia, Anonymous defaced the website of Rosatom and gained access to gigabytes of data which they intended to leak publicly. They had hacked into printers in Russia to spread anti-propaganda messages.[316][317]

In the aftermath of Bucha massacre, the hacking collective leaked the personal information of 120,000 Russian soldiers in Ukraine.[318]

On Cosmonautics Day, which commemorates cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's Vostok 1 mission to space, Anonymous broke into five websites, specifically the Russian heavy metal band Aria's site, a Russian hockey site, a Panerai watch enthusiasts site, a basketball team site, and an educational organization site, to put up defacement pages, with pop up messages such as "Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the defenders" and "I find the orcs lack of morality disturbing". They also included videos featuring Darth Vader and the "Star Wars" song "The Imperial March," the online game Roblox, disco song "Kung Fu Fighting", Mandopop music video "Fragile", and a performance of Ukraine's national anthem by cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Besides that, memes showing characters wearing a Guy Fawkes mask and the acronym "A.S.S." which stands for "Anonymous Strategic Support" were shown. Anonymous proposed a list of "post-war settlement solutions" against Russia; examples included financial compensation for the victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the establishment of a United Nations interim administration in occupied territories of Ukraine, a referendum on the status of such territories, creation of a neutral security belt in the region, monetary reparations of at least US$70 billion to Ukraine for reconstruction, the fulfillment of Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956 to presumably resolve the Kuril Islands dispute, cession of some Russian Antarctic bases to countries such as Iran, agreement to a potential enlargement of UN Security Council to include Brazil, South Africa and India with the increase of the minimum number of a successful veto to two or more, alongside unusual ones such as the pooling of funds from Russia to develop novel treatments against COVID-19 such as DRACO (double-stranded RNA activated caspase oligomerizer) and long COVID experimental treatment drug BC 007, and to construct a knowledge ark in space, ideally located at least in the middle region of the Asteroid Belt within Solar System. They leaked 446 GB of data from Russian Ministry of Culture.[319]

Anonymous leaked 446 GB of data from the Russian Ministry of Culture[320] and had hacked Russian companies Aerogas, Forest, and Petrovsky Fort. From there they leaked around 437,500 emails which they donated to non-profit whistleblower organization Distributed Denial of Secrets. Following that, the hacking collective hacked and leaked 87,500 emails from an engineering firm Neocom Geoservice, which specialises in exploring oil and gas fields and providing drilling support.[321][322]

In a similar fashion mentioned above, Russian investment company Accent Capital had its computer systems hacked and its 365,000 letters leaked online.[323]

On May 9, 2022, which is the Victory Day in Russia, the video-hosting website RuTube was taken down through cyberattacks, which Anonymous had claimed responsibility later. Network Battalion 65 (NB65), a hacktivist group affiliated with Anonymous, has reportedly hacked Russian payment processor Qiwi. A total of 10.5 terabytes of data including transaction records and customers' credit cards had been exfiltrated. They further infected Qiwi with ransomwares and threatened to release more customer records.[324][325]

Anonymous proceeded to hack Russian firms SOCAR Energoresource and Metprom Group LLC and dump their emails, the latter which was hacked by the Anonymous actors DepaixPorteur, B00daMooda, and Wh1t3Sh4d0w.[326][327] Anonymous hacked into Vyberi Radio and published more than 1,000,000 emails.[328]

DDoSecrets published 1 terabyte of data obtained from Anonymous, which included millions of files including emails, court files, client data, classified data, photographs, videos, payment information, and more from Rustam Kurmaev and Partners (RKPLaw), which was hacked by Anonymous actors DepaixPorteur and B00daMooda.[329][330][331]

Anonymous member "YourAnonSpider" had reportedly hacked into a Russian military UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) company in which plans and tactics regarding the use of drones in warfare had been stolen.[332]

The collective claimed responsibility for hacking Yandex Taxi on early September 2022 which sent dozens of cars to a location resulting in a traffic jam that lasted up to three hours.[333]

Hack of Australian police emails edit

The hacking collective leaked 82GB of emails from Australian police in protest of that country's offshore detention of refugees.[334]

Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan visit edit

During the visit of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, the website of Taiwan's Office of the President website was affected by a distributed denial of service attack. As a response Anonymous hacked into China Heilongjiang province's Society Scientific Community Federation website and uploaded a HTML page with the words "Taiwan Numbah Wan," Taiwanese flag and emblem, photos of Pelosi and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, and the words "Taiwan welcomes US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi". A footage showing Taipei 101's display of signs welcoming Pelosi's visit is shown, which reads "Speaker Pelosi", 'Welcome to TW", "Thank you", and "TW hearts US". Finally they embedded a Reddit comment from /r/taiwan subreddit that read "Aged like milk" while showing a picture of a tweet made by New Zealand journalist Andy Boreham predicting that Pelosi would not come to Taiwan because "the US cannot fly a military aircraft into Chinese airspace (yes, incl’ Taiwan) without permission" and that it would be a "suicide mission". Anonymous hacked into a Chinese gasoline generator factory’s website and argued that "True, there is one China, but Taiwan is the real China" and that the regime in Beijing is "only an imitation straight out of wish.com."[335][336]

As a retaliation against the cyberattacks against National Taiwan University, the collective hacked a Chinese real estate website and included links to other deface pages in hacked Russian websites. Besides posting Taiwanese flag and emblem, they argued that the Soviet Vostok 1 crewed space mission was "uncomplete" under the stipulation within Section 8, paragraph 2.15, item b of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) sporting code that a flight is deemed to be uncompleted if "any member of the crew definitively leaves the spacecraft during flight", as its pilot Yuri Gagarin had ejected from his capsule before it landed. From that, they reportedly said that America's Alan Shepard and John Glenn, who were both inside their capsules when they splashed down, should be considered as first humans in space. Analogies to American-British inventor Hiram Maxim were made. Regarding the technicality, although there are pragmatist arguments which posited that Alan Shepard and John Glenn should be considered as first person to legally complete a spaceflight mission and the first to actually complete an orbit around Earth respectively,[337][338][339] the National Air and Space Museum reported that the FAI reworked its guidelines by emphasizing the launch, orbiting, and safe return of the human over the method in which the landing took place to enable Gagarin to receive the record for the first person in space, along with other claimed records specifically that of duration in orbital flight—108 minutes, greatest altitude in earth orbital flight by a single person spacecraft (which remains standing as of August 2022)—327 kilometres (203 mi),[340] and the greatest mass lifted in earth orbital flight—4,725 kilograms (10,417 lb).[341]

Hack of United Nations Event Proposal Tool website edit

On early September 2022, Anonymous hacked the United Nations Event Proposal Tool website to post flags such as that of Taiwan and its pro-independence movement, Kosovo, Belarusian opposition, Russian opposition, Green Ukraine, alongside photo depicting Yuri Gagarin as a clown and six pages of manifesto text which emphasized that Yuri Gagarin had ejected from his capsule before it landed and should not qualify as the first man in space, and called for the establishment of a 30-kilometer demilitarized zone around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. The defacement ends with closing comments by Anonymous such as calls for American citizens to "vote wisely" in the 2022 United States Senate elections and 2022 United States House of Representatives elections to avoid going down "Russia's path."[342]

Iranian Protests edit

Over the death of Mahsa Amini, Anonymous took out Iranian websites on their word to "help the Iranian people". Besides that they had hacked the databases of Iranian parliament.[343][344]

Revenge hacks over Wikipedia edit war edit

In September, an editing war broke out over a Wikipedia article covering Anonymous member Cyber Anakin. Suspecting a Chinese influence operation involving a Wikipedia user who supported the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Anonymous retalitated by hacking into the systems of China's Ministry of Emergency Management and a private Chinese commercial satellite company called Mino Space. They uploaded content including images of the Anonymous emblem, the Taiwanese flag, Queen Elizabeth II, and other images related to contemporary news. They also uploaded a caricature of Xi Jinping and a manifesto which began "Bet you thought you could get away with defiling Wikipedia articles".[345][346][347]

A few days later, Anonymous hacked a United Nations website where it uploaded pro-Taiwanese images and included a manifesto that complained about Wikipedia. They then notified Taiwan News that they had "put Taiwan back into the UN".[348]

In December, Anonymous hacked into an Iranian hajj website and posted images of the Taiwanese flag, the 1964–1979 state flag of Iran, Mahsa Amini, and more criticism of Wikipedia.[349]

2022 COVID-19 protests in China edit

During the 2022 COVID-19 protests in China, Anonymous attacked Chinese governmental websites such as an official website in Heilongjiang province and a police surveillance device, while leaking personal information of Chinese law enforcement personnel. The hacking collective laid out five demands, namely the cessation of nucleic acid testing and forced quarantine, freedom of speech with the demolition of the internet firewall, release of arrested protesters and the dismissal of criminal charges against them, resumption of passport processing and opening of national border, and the cancellation of life-term for national leader.[350]

2023 edit

Hack on a Chinese research balloon edit

In the aftermath of the 2023 Chinese balloon incident. Anonymous hacked into the control panels of a Chinese research balloon which has reportedly flied India twice based on flight path, while hacking the websites of the Shanghai-based DP Art & Design Center concurrently. Contents such as criticism against the CCP for its handling of the COVID pandemic and how it "aims to control the world like a James Bond villain through overseas police stations!" and a photo of the Chinese spy balloon that flew over the U.S. appeared on defacement pages, along with a trailer from the Disney/Pixar film "Up," CNN archive footage of Tank Man in 1989, a ChatGPT-generated poem, and criticisms against Wikipedia such as systemic biases against article coverages on women, so-called "spending cancer", deletionism, and point-of-view skewing. They accused Wikipedia for failing to support two Wikipedia Arabic editors, Osama Khalid and Ziyad al-Sofiani, who were imprisoned by Saudi Arabia for "swaying public opinion" and "violating public morals."[351]

While images of Tyre Nichols, Anthony Lowe, and Joe Frasure Jr., all of whom were killed by police were included, Anonymous had criticized the disregard for human and animal lives by the Soviet Union during its pursuit of 'firsts" in the Space Race.[351]

Screenshots posted by the collective indicated previous flight path for the balloon which started near Nanchang in China's Jiangxi Province and flew southwest over Myanmar, Bangladesh, southern India, the Arabian Sea, eastern and central Africa, and the Gulf of Guinea. The flight path then returned back to the northeast over central and eastern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, the Arabian Sea, Pakistan, India, and Nepal, before arriving in Beijing. They are followed by screenshots showing defacements in the control panel,such as "Please donate your money to Turkish earthquake victims," "Where is Peng Shuai?," "CCP did you flew (fly) your wandering balloons across India?," "RIP Li Wenliang," and "Free East Turkistan." A meme showing an irate Greta Thunberg with the words "How dare Wikipedia" printed above and "Distorts to insult holocaust victims and survivors" was posted as well.[351]

Activities against Russia during the Ukraine war edit

In April 2023, to mark the Cosmonautics Day, the collective defaced the website of a Russian law enforcement support foundation where they uploaded a memorial to Tseng Sheng-guang, a Taiwanese soldier who died fighting for Ukraine while hacking into the control systems of machines, reporting including a blast furnace. The defacements begin with the Anonymous logo, a photo of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a video of the New York Philharmonic playing the Ukrainian national anthem, and a meme promoting the North Atlantic Fellas Organization, an Internet meme movement founded to counter Russian propaganda at the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. These memes were followed by a YouTube video of Ukrainian rap group Kalush Orchestra performing "Stefania" at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2022. Anonymous claimed that it has "always made great strides against Russia since Russia began its immoral war against Ukraine." In addition, they reiterated their claim that Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin cannot be considered as the first man in space because he ejected from his capsule before it landed. They went on to claim that the "firsts" achieved by the Soviet Union during the Space Race were exaggerated and had been surpassed by the achievements of the United States.[352]

On July 2023, Anonymous inserted Taiwanese flag, photo of Tsai Ing-wen along with the flag of fictional "Belgorod People's Republic" on two United Nations websites, specifically that of UN's High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) and the UN Academy websites. There they protested Google's policy of deleting inactive accounts, stating that it is "harsh" and is an action to "destroy history". They uploaded a text file disputing space exploration claims by the Soviet Union and a PDF version of a paper titled "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust," by professors Jan Grabowski and Shira Klein. On the UN academy website, a pixilated version of Taiwan's national flag and the lyrics of the Taiwanese national anthem are shown. Anonymous further threatened Russia against using tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine or jeopardizing the safety of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, remarking that the collective posessed the "ultimate ace card," without revealing what it is other than to say that it is a "trick rather than a treat."[353]

Opposition against Fukushima wastewater release plan edit

On August, Anonymous launched cyberattacks against groups that are linked to nuclear power in Japan in order to protest release of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant which was crippled during the nuclear disaster which transpired in 2011, into the sea.[354]

Pro-Taiwan operations on UNESCO websites edit

On September, Anonymous hacked into the website of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission to upload five waves of contents, including images to protest an alleged hate crime, proposed solution to the Fukushima wastewater releases, and criticisms against Google's policy to purge inactive accounts. Pictures such as Taiwan flag, police shooting victim Ta'Kiya Young, victims of the Jacksonville mass shooting in August, national seal of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek's successor Yen Chia-kan (嚴家淦), the Shilin Night Market, a cup of bubble tea, Taipei's Ximending, Taitung's Sanxiantai, Kaohsiung's Dragon and Tiger Pagodas, Nantou's Yushan and Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village, logos of 12 of Taiwan's political parties (including the Democratic Progressive Party, New Power Party, Kuomintang, and Taiwan People's Party), and logos of five TV stations in Taiwan including China Television, PTS, Formosa TV. TTV, and CTS. Besides that, documents such "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust," a text file listing grievances against Google and Wikipedia, and Mandarin rap song by Tuojiang Yegou (脫韁野狗, Runaway Wild Dog) were displayed there.[355]

Operations during the Israel-Palestinian War edit

Main article: Israel–Hamas war

On October 7, Anonymous targeted numerous Israeli systems such as the Iron Dome missile defense system, the government, Israeli websites, and cameras.[356]

Anonymous issued a statement directed to Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli government that the international community was outraged by actions that have "resulted in unimaginable devastation, with thousands of innocent lives lost including over 4000 children, and many more injured and displaced".[357]

In March 2024, Anonymous stated that if Israel did not agree in a couple of days to a ceasefire, they would attack, which they did on March 10 attacking Dimona nuclear plant systems by stealing and publishing more than 7 gigabytes of data.[358]

Hack of United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs edit

On December, Anonymous hacked a website that is owned by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs where they put contents such as Taiwan's flag, symbols, and pictures of famous leaders. There embedded videos playing Taiwanese national anthem, Namewee's Mandopop song "Fragile," Taiwanese comedian Brian Tseng's "Taiwan," and Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You." are shown. A photo symbolizing Operation 1027, the ongoing joint rebel military operation against Myanmar's military junta was displayed as well. While continuing their criticism against Google's policy of deleting inactive accounts where they included a long diatribe against it, the hacking collective also called for calm and peace in the context of the 2023 Guyana–Venezuela crisis. The hacking collective claimed that since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, it has had the "ultimate ace card" up its sleeve and cryptically says that the ace card is something "likely horrific" that leads to the "dragon's territory." The hacking collective said that it is a "trick rather than a treat" and that its temporary moniker is "Swan Lake." Anonymous reportedly warned that if it goes through with its threatened invasion of the Essequibo Region, it would be forced to launch Swan Lake on Venezuela. Finally Anonymous reiterated its claims that the "firsts" achieved by the Soviet Union during the space race were exaggerated and were far surpassed by U.S. accomplishments while repeating the argument that because Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had ejected from his capsule before it landed, he does not qualify as the first man in space.[359]

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This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia s quality standards The specific problem is to shorten and reformat per WP TIMELINE Please help improve this article if you can May 2024 Learn how and when to remove this message Anonymous is a decentralized virtual community 1 They are commonly referred to as an internet based collective of hacktivists whose goals like its organization are decentralized Anonymous seeks mass awareness and revolution against what the organization perceives as corrupt entities while attempting to maintain anonymity Anonymous has had a hacktivist impact 2 This is a timeline of activities reported to be carried out by the group Contents 1 2007 2 2008 3 2009 4 2010 5 2011 5 1 Attack on HBGary Federal 5 2 Operation Ouroboros 5 3 2011 2012 Operation Empire State Rebellion 5 4 Operation Sony 5 5 June 5 6 Operation Anti Security 5 7 Operation Facebook 5 8 Operation BART 5 9 Shooting Sheriffs Saturday 5 10 Support of Occupy Wall Street 5 11 Operation Syria 5 12 Operation DarkNet 5 13 Opposition to Los Zetas 5 14 Operation Brotherhood Takedown 5 15 John Pike incident 5 16 Attack on Stratfor 5 17 Operation Pharisee 5 18 Operation Deepthroat 6 2012 6 1 CSLEA hack 6 2 Occupy Nigeria 6 3 Operation Megaupload 6 4 Anti ACTA activism in Europe 6 5 Operation Russia 6 6 Boston Police Department attacks 6 7 Preventing vote tampering 6 8 Syrian Government E mail Hack 6 9 AntiSec Leak and CIA Attack 6 10 Interpol Attack 6 11 AIPAC Attack 6 12 Vatican website DDoS Attacks 6 13 Bureau of Justice leak 6 14 Taking down Monsanto s Hungarian website 6 15 Symantec source code leak 6 16 April 2012 Chinese attack 6 17 Operation Bahrain and Formula One attacks 6 18 Occupy Philippines 6 19 Operation India 6 20 Operation Quebec 6 21 Operation Cyprus 6 22 Operation Japan 6 23 Operation Anaheim 6 24 AAPT attack 6 25 Attack on the Mexican PRI party 6 25 1 Pena s birthday present 6 26 Operation Myanmar 6 27 Uganda LGBT rights 6 28 Hong Kong National Education 6 29 Philippine Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 6 30 Release of Westboro Baptist Church Personal Information 7 2013 7 1 Steubenville rape case 7 2 Attack on the Mexican Army website 7 3 Aaron Swartz Suicide 7 4 Federal Reserve 7 5 Operation North Korea 7 6 Op Israel 7 7 2012 Cleveland police shooting incident 7 8 Rehtaeh Parsons 7 9 Sabah Crisis 7 10 Philippine Coast Guard incident 7 11 EDL 7 12 Public NSA documents 7 13 Hawthorne dog shooting incident 7 14 Nigeria anti gay laws 7 15 The GCSB 7 16 Operation Singapore 7 17 National Party linked websites attacks 7 18 Support of anti PDAF movement 8 2014 8 1 OpJustina 8 2 Operation Ferguson 8 3 Operation Hong Kong 8 4 Operation Infosurge 9 2015 9 1 Charlie Hebdo response 9 2 Gas station hacks 9 3 Operation Death Eaters 9 4 Operation Stop Reclamation 9 5 Operation Anon Down 9 6 Operation StormFront 9 7 Operation KKK OPKKK 10 2016 10 1 Operation Comelec 10 2 Operation Single Gateway 11 2017 11 1 Operation Darknet Relaunch 12 2018 12 1 Unconfirmed hack of Gabon s official websites 13 2019 13 1 Chilean Army emails leak 13 2 OpHongKong 14 2020 14 1 Pro Taiwan hacks 14 2 PLDTHacked 14 3 BlackLivesMatter Movement 14 4 BlueLeaks 14 5 Bolsonaro hack and support of Julian Assange 14 6 UgandanLivesMatter 15 2021 15 1 OpsWakeUp21 15 2 Operation Jane and Epik hack 15 3 Hack of Chinese websites 15 4 Hack of Brazilian municipal website 15 5 Hack of United Nations website during Christmas 16 2022 16 1 Polar Research Institute of China hack 16 2 Convention of Biological Diversity website hack 16 3 OpSamanthaSmith 16 4 Operations during the Russian invasion of Ukraine 16 5 Hack of Australian police emails 16 6 Nancy Pelosi s Taiwan visit 16 7 Hack of United Nations Event Proposal Tool website 16 8 Iranian Protests 16 9 Revenge hacks over Wikipedia edit war 16 10 2022 COVID 19 protests in China 17 2023 17 1 Hack on a Chinese research balloon 17 2 Activities against Russia during the Ukraine war 17 3 Opposition against Fukushima wastewater release plan 17 4 Pro Taiwan operations on UNESCO websites 17 5 Operations during the Israel Palestinian War 17 6 Hack of United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 18 See also 19 References 20 Further reading2007 editJanuary Radio host Hal Turner sued several online groups alleging Anonymous posted unauthorized copies of his radio shows online attacked his server so as to make it unavailable and placed unauthorized orders for goods services and merchandise from third parties in his name The case was dismissed in December for lack of response 3 December A man was arrested in Toronto on charges of luring a child under the age of 14 attempting to invite sexual touching attempted exposure and other charges Police stated that Anonymous a cyber vigilante group which trolls for pedophiles and then outs them had targetted the suspect before law enforcement was involved and cautioned that such interference could impede official investigations 4 5 6 2008 editJanuary 14 Anonymous declared war on the Church of Scientology and bombarded them with DDoS attacks harassing phone calls black faxes and Google bombing 7 8 February December Known as Project Chanology Anonymous organized multiple in person pickets in front of Churches of Scientology world wide starting February 10 and running throughout the year achieving coordinated pickets in over 100 cities thousands of protestors and wearing Guy Fawkes masks 9 March 28 The Epilepsy Foundation s forum was salted with posts displaying flashing computer animations with the intention of triggering seizures in photosensitive and pattern sensitive epileptics There was some evidence pointing to Anonymous but Anonymous named other likely culprits including the Church of Scientology seeking to discredit Anonymous 10 11 See also Epilepsy Foundation 2008 forum invasion June Anonymous claimed responsibility for attacking and defacing websites and forums of SOHH Support Online Hip Hop and AllHipHop causing the sites to temporarily shut down They also stole personal information about SOHH employees 12 See also SOHH Defacement September 16 Anonymous declared they hacked the private email account of Sarah Palin An individual was convicted and sentenced to a year in federal prison 13 14 See also Sarah Palin email hack 2009 editJanuary Anonymous targeted California teen McKay Hatch who runs the No Cussing Club a website against profanity Hatch s home address phone number and other personal information were leaked on the internet and his family received hate mail obscene phone calls bogus pizza deliveries and pornography through the mail 15 16 17 June Anonymous and Pirate Bay set up a website for Iranians to communicate and coordinate online for the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests and the Iranian Green Movement by bypassing the government s internet censorship in Iran 18 September 9 Anonymous temporarily shut down the website of the Prime Minister of Australia with a denial of service attack as a warning in protest against the government s plan to filter the internet 19 2010 editJanuary Anonymous attacked websites of the governments of Tunisia and Zimbabwe over censorship issues related to WikiLeaks 20 February 10 Anonymous conducted DDoS attacks against a wide range of Australian government servers in protest of proposed internet filtering legislation which wouuld block some pornography Australian anti censorship groups complained that the attack only hurt their cause and Australian government members dismissed the attack and said that they would just restore the service when the attack finished 21 22 See also February 2010 Australian cyberattacks July Anonymous flooded the Oregon Tea Party s Facebook page when they found out that OTP had been using part of Anonymous slogan We Are Legion OTP surrendered apologized and recanted 23 July In response to Chelsea Manning s imprisonment and treatment after leaking classified information to WikiLeaks Anonymous threatened to disrupt activities at Marine Corps Brig Quantico by cyber attacking communications exposing private information of personnel and other harassment methods Military spokespersons responded that the threat has been referred to law enforcement and counterterrorism officials and requested an investigation 24 25 September Anonymous targeted major pro copyright and anti piracy organizations law firms individuals and entertainment industry websites in retaliation for DDoS attacks on torrent sites 26 27 See also Operation Payback December Anonymous started DDoS attacks on websites of companies who had withdrawn banking facilities from WikiLeaks including Amazon PayPal BankAmerica Swiss bank PostFinance MasterCard and Visa 28 29 Over the next year dozens were arrested and several convicted for their part in the operation See also Operation Payback Operation Avenge Assange and Anonymous hacker group Operation Avenge Assange December Anonymous promoted sifting through WikiLeaks to identify potentially overlooked cables making short videos covering the topic and flooding the internet with them 30 2011 editJanuary 3 Anonymous got involved during the Tunisian Revolution and engaged in DDoS attacks on key Tunisian websites including the president prime minister ministry of industry ministry of foreign affairs and the stock exchange taking down at least 8 websites and defacing several others Anonymous distributed information and scripts to help Tunisians bypass government censorship and Anonymous own website also came under DDoS attack 31 32 33 34 January 9 Anonynous hacked and defaced the website of Fine Gael an Irish political party 35 February 27 As part of the 2011 Wisconsin protests Anonymous knocked offline the website for the Koch brother s Americans for Prosperity 36 37 Attack on HBGary Federal edit See also WikiLeaks Bank of America Hunton amp Williams and Anonymous On the weekend of February 5 6 2011 Aaron Barr the chief executive of the security firm HBGary Federal announced that his firm had successfully infiltrated the Anonymous group and although he would not hand over details to the police he would reveal his findings at a later conference in San Francisco In retaliation for Aaron Barr s claims members of the group Anonymous hacked the website of HBGary Federal and replaced the welcome page with a message stating that Anonymous should not be messed with and that the hacking of the website was necessary to defend itself Using a variety of techniques including social engineering and SQL injection 38 Anonymous went on to take control of the company s e mail dumping 68 000 e mails from the system erasing files and taking down their phone system 39 The leaked emails revealed the reports and company presentations of other companies in computer security such as Endgame systems who promise high quality offensive software advertising subscriptions of 2 500 000 per year for access to 0day exploits 40 Among the documents exposed was a PowerPoint presentation entitled The Wikileaks Threat put together by HBGary Federal along with two other data intelligence firms for Bank of America in December 41 Within the report these firms created a list of important contributors to WikiLeaks they further developed a strategic plan of attack against the site As TechHerald explains the plan included pressing a journalist in order to disrupt his support of the organization cyber attacks disinformation and other potential proactive tactics The report specifically claims that Glenn Greenwald s support was key to WikiLeaks ongoing survival 42 43 44 Anonymous also personally attacked Aaron Barr by taking control of his Twitter account posting Mr Barr s supposed home address and social security number 45 In response to the attacks founder of HBGary Federal Greg Hoglund responded to journalist Brian Krebs They didn t just pick on any company we try to protect the US Government from hackers They couldn t have chosen a worse company to pick on 45 After the attacks Anonymous continued to clog up HBGary Federal fax machines and made threatening phone calls 46 Operation Ouroboros edit On February 16 2011 the group supposedly 47 wrote an open letter to the Westboro Baptist Church stating Cease amp desist your protest campaign in the year 2011 close your public Web sites Should you ignore this warning the propaganda amp detestable doctrine that you promote will be eradicated the damage incurred will be irreversible and neither your institution nor your congregation will ever be able to fully recover 48 49 50 On February 19 2011 the church responded telling Anonymous to bring it on and calling them among other things a puddle of pimple faced nerds 51 52 53 Anonymous subsequently denied the authenticity of the threat 47 suggesting that someone from outside Anonymous had made the posting 53 54 55 Due to their website being openly editable by anyone it is unknown who made the post Anonymous responded with a press release calling the Westboro Church professional trolls stating that they believe that it was a member of the Westboro Church making an attempt to provoke an attack thus acting as a honeypot which would both allow the church to retaliate against Internet service providers in court and to gain it further publicity 53 56 They also claimed that they had more pressing matters to attend to namely the support of the protests that led to the 2011 Libyan civil war 57 That said Anonymous later suggested tactics for those who wished to attack Westboro nevertheless avoiding DDoS in favor of sending prostitutes preferably male and in general to rape their asses in the most unpredictable ways possible 56 Our best guess is that you heard about us on that newfangled TV of yours and thought we might be some good money for your little church Anonymous response to the Westboro issue 55 Anonymous indicated that an attack would be self defeating stating When Anonymous says we support free speech we mean it We count Beatrice Hall among our Anonymous forebears I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it 58 Nonetheless Westboro s website at godhatesfags com suffered an attack 59 60 61 Another hacktivist by the name of Jester claimed to bring down the websites from the Westboro Baptist Church on his Twitter account 62 63 64 2011 2012 Operation Empire State Rebellion edit On March 14 2011 Anonymous began releasing emails it said were obtained from Bank of America 65 According to the group the files show evidence of corruption and fraud and relate to the issue of improper foreclosures They say that a former employee named Brian Penny 66 from Balboa Insurance a firm which used to be owned by BofA appeared to be a reputable insider in the force placed insurance market 67 68 a market which in 2012 began getting more and more coverage from various government and media sources including the New York Department of Finance 69 50 State Attorney General Coalition 70 the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 71 and large class action lawsuits 72 Balboa Insurance is now owned by Australian Reinsurance company QBE 73 while Brian privately consults various agencies and institutions on the inside workings of mortgage insurance tracking systems and force placed insurance 74 while maintaining a blog about his experience as a whistleblower 75 Operation Sony edit See also Sony Computer Entertainment America v George Hotz Anonymous announced their intent to attack Sony websites in response to Sony s lawsuit against George Hotz and specifically due to Sony s gaining access to the IP addresses of all the people who visited George Hotz s blog as part of the libel action terming it an offensive against free speech and internet freedom 76 Although Anonymous admitted responsibility to subsequent attacks on the Sony websites Anonymous branch AnonOps denied that they were the cause behind a major outage of the PlayStation Network in April 2011 However as Anonymous is a leaderless organization the possibility remains that another branch of the group is responsible for the outage though screenshots of AnonOps promotion of the attack still exist 77 78 June edit June 6 Anonymous claimed to have hacked India s National Informatics Centre in support of Ramdev defacing it 79 June 12 Anonymous claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack of the website of the National Police Corps of Spain asserting it was a legitimate form of peaceful protest in retaliation for the arrest of three individuals alleged to be associated with acts of cyber civil disobedience attributed to Anonymous 80 June 15 The group launched DDoS attacks on ninety one Malaysian government websites in retaliation for their censoring of websites 81 June 20 Members of the group took down the websites of the Orlando Florida Chamber of Commerce and inserted a message into the website of the Universal Orlando Resort requesting that users boycott Orlando The group did so in response to the arrests of members of Food Not Bombs for feeding the homeless in Lake Eola Park against city ordinances 82 The group had planned and announced the attack on their IRC channel 83 84 The group has vowed to take a different Orlando related website offline every day and have also targeted the re election website of Mayor of Orlando Buddy Dyer and the Orlando International Airport A member of the group left a Guy Fawkes mask outside of the mayor s home the police are treating the picture taken of the mask as a threat against the mayor 85 On July 11 the group took down the website of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando and the Rotary Club of Orlando 86 June 28 Anonymous announced that within the next 24 hours it would hack into the website of the Knesset the legislature of Israel and knock it offline It was stated that the planned attacks were a response to alleged hacking attacks by Israeli intelligence such as the Stuxnet virus a computer virus which allegedly was created by Israeli and U S intelligence and targeted the Iranian nuclear program 87 Operation Anti Security edit Main article Operation AntiSec The group collaborated with LulzSec to hack the websites of a number of government and corporate sources and release information from them 88 89 As well as targeting American sites Anonymous also targeted government sites in Tunisia Anguilla Brazil Zimbabwe Turkey and Australia On July 21 Anonymous released two PDFs allegedly taken from NATO 90 Operation Facebook edit In August 2011 someone created an account on Twitter with the name OP Facebook and announced the Operation Facebook According to the links on the post Anonymous was going to take down Facebook on November 5 2011 91 The date November 5 is believed to be a reference to V for Vendetta where the character V conducts his plans every fifth of November in memory of Guy Fawkes This operation isn t assuredly an Anonymous one There was an earlier OpFacebook that was abandoned and this was an attempted revival 92 The plan was contentious and does not appear to be supported by the majority of those who say they are part of Anonymous 93 Operation BART edit Main article Bay Area Rapid Transit 2011 Charles Hill killing and aftermath In August 2011 in response to Bay Area Rapid Transit s shutdown of cell phone service in an attempt to disconnect protesters from assembling in response to a police shooting as well as the shooting itself Anonymous sent out a mass email fax bomb to BART personnel and organized multiple mass physical protests at the network s Civic Center station 94 Anonymous also hacked the BART website releasing the personal information of 102 BART police officers 95 as well as account information for about 2 000 customers 96 Shooting Sheriffs Saturday edit In an event dubbed Shooting Sheriffs Saturday Anonymous hacked 70 mostly rural law enforcement websites and released 10 GB of leaked emails training files informant information and other information 97 98 The name is likely a reference to the song I Shot the Sheriff by Bob Marley Support of Occupy Wall Street edit nbsp A member holding an Anonymous flier at Occupy Wall Street a protest that the group actively supported September 17 2011 Several contingents of Anonymous have given support to the Occupy Wall Street movement with members attending local protests and blogs run by members covering the movement 99 100 101 Operation Syria edit In early August Anonymous hacked the Syrian Defense Ministry website and replaced it with a vector image of the pre Ba athist flag a symbol of the pro democracy movement in the country as well as a message supporting the 2011 Syrian uprising and calling on members of the Syrian Army to defect to protect protesters 102 Operation DarkNet edit In October 2011 the collective campaigned against child pornography protected by anonymous hosting techniques They temporarily DDoSed 40 child porn sites published the usernames of over 1500 people frequenting one of those websites and invited the U S Federal Bureau of Investigation and Interpol to follow up 103 Opposition to Los Zetas edit On October 6 2011 Anonymous released a video stating that Los Zetas had kidnapped one of the group s members and threatened that unless the hostage was freed they would publish personal information about members of the cartel and their collaborators in politics police military and business which might lead to their prosecution by Mexican authorities or targeting by rival cartels The website of Gustavo Rosario Torres a former Tabasco state prosecutor was subsequently defaced with a message suggesting his involvement with the organization 104 According to Anonymous Iberoamerica blog in early November Los Zetas reportedly freed the kidnapped victim without knowledge of its Anonymous affiliation 105 106 However following widespread news coverage of the video reporters did not find evidence of a previous Anonymous action matching the description given and found little evidence of support among Anonymous members particularly in Mexico 107 108 Reporters noted a lack of details and police reports 109 110 111 and that the Veracruz state attorney general couldn t confirm the kidnapping 112 113 Operation Brotherhood Takedown edit On November 7 2011 Anonymous released a warning threat to the Muslim Brotherhood that they would take down major websites belonging to their organization 114 On November 12 the Muslim Brotherhood released a statement detailing the extent of the attack and that four websites were temporarily taken down 115 On November 12 2011 another video was released claiming the attack would continue until November 18 116 John Pike incident edit In response to the UC Davis pepper spray incident Anonymous released the personal information of John Pike the officer that pepper sprayed peaceful protestors 117 Attack on Stratfor edit Main article Stratfor email leak On December 24 claims were made that Anonymous stole thousands of e mail addresses and credit card information from security firm Stratfor Reportedly Anonymous commented that this is because the data was unencrypted however some members of Anonymous denied the group was involved 118 The hackers included Jeremy Hammond who worked with Anonymous to release Stratfor s 5 543 061 emails to WikiLeaks The emails revealed Stratfor s surveillance of groups such as Occupy Wall Street and protestors of the Bhopal disaster 119 120 Operation Pharisee edit Operation Pharisee was an attack organized via social media such as Facebook Twitter and YouTube 121 against the Vatican website for World Youth Day 2011 It was unsuccessful despite a denial of service attack resulting 34 times normal traffic and well documented 122 due to the efforts of Imperva the security firm employed by the Vatican 123 Operation Deepthroat edit Anonymous along with 4chan s b board Reddit Tumblr and Funnyjunk teamed together to make a raid on 9gag called Operation Deepthroat The raid was separated in multiple teams The first team the Alpha Team spammed horrifying images of child pornography gore furries and scat on 9gag s site followed by fake accounts made by 4chan Anonymous Reddit Tumblr and Funnyjunk voting the spam up effectively overloading the servers The second team the Gold Team used the Low Orbit Ion Cannon and the High Orbit Ion Cannon LOIC and HOIC respectively and fired on 9gag which DDoS d the entire site down The third team the Red Team was tasked to spread the information of the OP on 4chan Reddit Tumblr and Funnyjunk and also supported the other teams The fourth and final team the White Team was tasked with spamming chat sites such as Omegle and Chatroulette with inappropriate messages such as 9gag com is the place for Child Pornography in order to tarnish 9gag s wholesome and family friendly name The reason behind this whole operation began when 9gag took several of 4chan s memes and called them theirs followed by making a legion called the 9gag army a ripoff of Anonymous The operation began on December 21 2011 at 12 00 AM and ended at 11 59 PM 9gag was mainly offline for the next few days except for some servers which managed to protect themselves from the LOIC and HOIC Prior to the operation 4chan users used fake accounts to trick 9gaggers into DDoS ing themselves saying the coordinates were that of 4chan The pre raid attack was mostly ineffective however as only a few servers went down 2012 editCSLEA hack edit In January 2012 Anonymous hacked the website of the California Statewide Law Enforcement Association to protest police brutality 124 Occupy Nigeria edit In solidarity with Occupy Nigeria Anonymous has joined forces with the People s Liberation Front and the Naija Cyber Hactivists of Nigeria Anonymous promised a relentless and devastating assault upon the web assets of the Nigerian government in support of Occupy Nigeria This was in protest to the removal of fuel subsidy that the majority of impoverished Nigerians depend upon for their very existence causing the price of fuel and transportation to skyrocket and therefore extreme hardship for the majority of Nigerians On January 13 the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission website was hacked with a false report of the arrest of people involved in the oil sector replacing the normal page 125 Operation Megaupload edit nbsp Wikinews has related news US government music industry websites taken offline in web attack In retaliation for the shut down of the file sharing service Megaupload and the arrest of four workers 126 Anonymous DDoSed the websites of UMG the company responsible for the lawsuit against Megaupload the United States Department of Justice the United States Copyright Office the Federal Bureau of Investigation the MPAA Warner Brothers Music the RIAA and the HADOPI the afternoon of January 19 2012 127 The operations by Anonymous were speculated to have been driven further by anger over the House of Representatives Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA and the Senate s Protect Intellectual Property Act PIPA 128 Anti ACTA activism in Europe edit On January 21 2012 a series of DDoS attacks on Polish government websites took place for which the Anonymous took responsibility and referred to as the Polish Revolution 129 The group via their Twitter account stated it was a revenge for upcoming signing of ACTA agreement by the Polish government Starting with websites of the Sejm Polish Prime Minister President Ministry of Culture and National Heritage later on websites of the police Internal Security Agency Ministry of Foreign Affairs were also blocked The presumed attack was further strengthened by the media coverage which resulted in extremely high interest of public opinion followed up by blackout of popular Polish websites on 24th 130 and protests of thousands of people on January 24 and 25 in major cities of Poland 131 against signing ACTA Other suspected targets were the websites of Pawel Gras the government s spokesman blocked after Gras denied the attacks ever took place the website of PSL blocked after Eugeniusz Klopotek a member of the party supported ACTA on air of the major TV station Governmental sites in France s presidential website 132 and Austria s Ministry of Justice Ministry of Internal Affairs Ministry of Economy and also the website of the Federal Chancellor 133 were also cracked and paralyzed Anonymous in Slovenia announced opposition against the Slovenian signing of the ACTA and have posted video threats on various websites against the government officials as well as against Nova Ljubljanska Banka commonly known as NLB accusing the latter of corruption 134 On February 4 2012 The NLB was a victim of a cyber attack and was offline for one hour while public demonstrations were held in the capital of Ljubljana and in Maribor Some estimated 3000 people gathered in the capital while around 300 protested in Maribor 135 Operation Russia edit Unidentified hackers cracked email boxes of some prominent pro Kremlin activists and officials including Vasily Yakemenko head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs Kristina Potupchik press secretary for Nashi youth movement and Oleg Khorokhordin deputy head of the Department for Internal Affairs at the Presidential Administration Since February 1 links to contents of the mailboxes have been appearing on OP Russia Twitter account The hackers confirmed they consider themselves a part of the Anonymous movement We are Anonymous they stated in an interview 136 137 The information discovered enabled many to accuse Yakemenko and his colleagues in paying some influential bloggers as well as numerous trolls for publishing stories and commenting in favour of Vladimir Putin on negative press articles on the Internet 138 139 140 Boston Police Department attacks edit On February 3 2012 Anonymous hacked a website belonging to the Boston Police Department to protest the eviction of Occupy Wall Street protestors 141 BPD later responded with a sarcastic video of their own 142 Preventing vote tampering edit In 2012 Anonymous claims to have added a firewall they called The Great Oz allegedly designed to prevent election tampering in the United States 143 Syrian Government E mail Hack edit Main article Syria Files On February 6 2012 Anonymous broke into the mail server of the Syrian Ministry of Presidential Affairs gaining access to some 78 inboxes of Bashar al Assad s staffers in the process One of the email files was a document preparing Assad for his December 2011 interview with ABC s Barbara Walters One of the passwords commonly used by Assad s office accounts was 12345 144 In July 2012 Anonymous gave over 2 4 million e mails to WikiLeaks 145 AntiSec Leak and CIA Attack edit On Friday February 10 2012 Anonymous claimed responsibility for taking down the Central Intelligence Agency s website for more than 5 hours Several servers went back up while others stayed down 146 This followed a conversation leak in which Anonymous took responsibility between FBI and Scotland Yard officials discussing members of Anonymous being put on trial as well as other topics on the group which took place a week before 147 On March 6 2012 Donncha O Cearbhaill was charged in connection with the leak 148 He was released 24 hours later 149 Interpol Attack edit Following Interpol s announcement on February 28 that they made arrests of 25 suspected members of the hacking activist group Anonymous in Europe and South America their site went down for a moment 150 AIPAC Attack edit On March 4 2012 Anonymous took down the American Israel Public Affairs Committee website An AIPAC spokesman was questioned on the matter but did not respond 151 A video titled Anonymous Message to AIPAC was uploaded on YouTube earlier the same day 152 importance Vatican website DDoS Attacks edit The official website of the Vatican was brought down temporarily by a DDoS attack from Anonymous on March 7 2012 Later that day the website recovered Anonymous has also attempted to take the site down in 2011 but the attempt did not succeed They claimed that their attack was not targeted against the followers of the Catholic Church but against the Church itself which Anonymous viewed as corrupt 153 On March 12 the Vatican s official website was brought down for a few hours by a second DDoS attack Anonymous also hacked Vatican Radio and gained access to the Vatican Radio database in protest against the Vatican Radio allegedly using repeaters with power transmission largely outside the bounds of the law 154 Bureau of Justice leak edit On March 21 2012 1 7GB of data was stolen from the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics by Anonymous The leak reportedly contained shiny things such as internal emails and the entire database dump 155 156 Taking down Monsanto s Hungarian website edit On March 16 the official website of Monsanto s Hungarian website collapsed and wasn t restored until March 26 157 Symantec source code leak edit In March 2012 people claiming to be a part of Anonymous leaked the source code for old versions of Norton AntiVirus and Norton Utilities 158 April 2012 Chinese attack edit In April 2012 Anonymous hacked 485 Chinese government websites some more than once to protest the treatment of their citizens They urged people to fight for justice fight for freedom and fight for democracy 159 160 161 Operation Bahrain and Formula One attacks edit On April 21 Anonymous defaced the official site of Formula One in protest against the 2012 Bahrain Grand Prix The race was the subject of ongoing controversy as it was being held during ongoing anti government protests with the support of the government 162 163 Anonymous posted a press release criticising the decision to hold the race despite the violent crackdowns 164 and posted data of ticket sales for the event with sensitive information particularly the credit card numbers of spectators redacted Other sites related to the sport and the Bahraini government were also the subject of distributed denial of service attack 165 Occupy Philippines edit On April 21 2012 busabos of Anonymous Philippines attacked the China University Media Union website as a retaliation against alleged Chinese hackers who defaced the University of the Philippines website which claimed that the Scarborough Shoal is Chinese territory Anonymous left a message that the Scarborough Shoal is the Philippines territory On April 25 2012 busabos of Anonymous OccupyPhilippines warned that they had not yet started their attack against Chinese websites The members that can be counted in hand called the cyber attacks were a result of the 2012 Scarborough Shoal standoff 166 167 Operation India edit On May 17 2012 Anonymous launched an attack against the websites of the India Supreme Court and the then ruling Congress party in reaction to internet service providers blocking popular video sites like Vimeo as well as file sharing sites like The Pirate Bay 168 Operation Quebec edit Main articles 2012 Quebec student protests and Bill 78 nbsp Guy Fawkes mask seen at a protest in Montreal on May 22 2012 against Bill 78 as part of the 2012 Quebec protests On May 20 2012 Anonymous launched Operation Quebec in reaction to the adoption of Bill 78 by the government of Quebec an act restricting the freedom of association in this Canadian province after several weeks of student protests 169 A video was released urging the governing Liberal Party of Quebec to let the citizens protest On May 21 the websites of the Liberal Party of Quebec of the Ministry of Public Security of Quebec as well as a government site on police ethics were DDoSed 170 171 Anonymous then threatened to disrupt the Formula 1 Grand Prix of Canada to be held between June 7 and 10 in Montreal the same way they did for the Bahrain Grand Prix They claimed to have accessed personal information stored in the F1 website 172 On May 30 Anonymous leaked a video called DVD Gouverne mental a 2 hours long footage from Sagard Quebec where a party for the wife of Paul Desmarais of Power Corporation had been held in 2008 173 Among the guests were former US president George H Bush premier Jean Charest of Quebec former Canadian prime ministers Jean Chretien and Brian Mulroney former Quebec premier Lucien Bouchard former governor general of Canada Adrienne Clarkson journalist Charlie Rose singers Robert Charlebois and Hiromi Omura lyricist Luc Plamondon and conductor Yannick Nezet Seguin 174 Operation Cyprus edit An Anonymous video was released on June 8 2012 claiming that an attack against the government of Cyprus would take place due to reasons of government corruption media misinformation and the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement 175 On June 26 DDoS attacks took place against 47 websites of the Republic of Cyprus which were taken down for 15 hours 176 The government stated that it was a coordinated attack by Anonymous Operation Japan edit On June 26 2012 the website of the Japanese Business Federation was taken offline with Anonymous claiming this was part of Operation Japan The reason for their action was the new amendments to the copyright laws in Japan 177 For those found to have illegally copied material such as music DVDs or Blu ray discs fines could run as high as 25 000 and carry a sentence of two years in prison according to CNET Japan 178 Operation Anaheim edit On July 25 2012 Anonymous launched an online protest in response to the Anaheim police shooting It began with the release of the personal information of some of the top officers including police chief John Welter 179 AAPT attack edit In July 2012 Anonymous hacked Australian ISP AAPT and later leaked 40 GB of partially redacted customer data to protest data retention policy 180 Attack on the Mexican PRI party edit On July 6 2012 as part of the Yo Soy 132 student protest movement the Mexican branch of Anonymous defaced the PRI party website the party that held the power of the country for 70 years and that the 132 movement accused of human rights violations during that period Anonymous hacked the site leaving slogans against the electoral fraud and the imminent return of the PRI party to power 181 182 183 Pena s birthday present edit On July 20 2012 a second attack on a PRI related website was performed as part of the Yo Soy 132 student protest movement by the Mexican branch of Anonymous This time Anonymous did it on the birthday of president elect Pena Nieto and as a gift they left a picture of Pena next to slogans against electoral fraud and a penis shaped birthday cake 184 Operation Myanmar edit This section relies excessively on references to primary sources Please improve this section by adding secondary or tertiary sources Find sources Timeline of events associated with Anonymous news newspapers books scholar JSTOR January 2013 Learn how and when to remove this message On August 10 2012 Anonymous launched a DDoS attack and defacement of more than 100 Myanmar websites all hackers from all over the world joined this operation as a protest for killing Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar 185 Myanmar s hackers also made a lot of counterattacks 186 Uganda LGBT rights edit On August 13 2012 Anonymous hacked two Uganda government websites to protest the country s strict anti gay laws 187 Hong Kong National Education edit In mid September 2012 Anonymous hackers threatened the Hong Kong government organization known as National Education Centre In their online video Anonymous members claimed responsibility for leaking classified related government documents and taking down the National Education Centre website after the Hong Kong government has repeatedly ignored months of wide scale protests against the establishment of a new core Moral and National Education curriculum for children from 6 18 years of age The new syllabus has come under heavy criticism and international media attention as it does not award students based on how much factual information is learned but instead grades and evaluates students based on their level of emotional attachment and approval of the Chinese Communist Party 188 Philippine Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 edit Anonymous Philippines launched a series of attacks against several websites of the Philippine government to protest against the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 The hackers urged for the revisions of the cybercrime law On September 26 Anonymous defaced several websites including that of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and the Philippine National Police 189 190 They claim that the law violates freedom of expression and described the law as most notorious act ever witnessed in the cyber history On October 1 they hacked again several government websites in an operation dubbed as Bloody Monday and asked for a revision of the Cybercrime Law for the betterment of the Filipino netizens 189 In February 2014 the Philippine Supreme Court ruled out the online libel to be unconstitutional because of its some provisions 191 Release of Westboro Baptist Church Personal Information edit Anonymous re posted the names addresses and emails of the prominent members of the Westboro Baptist Church on December 16 2012 due to announced plans to picket the funerals of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting 192 followed by saying that God would protect their site They also caused several DDOS attacks on the site itself hacked the social media accounts of the members involved and started a whitehouse org petition to get the Church legally branded as a Hate Group 193 194 2013 editSteubenville rape case edit Main article Steubenville High School rape case In early 2013 the group released an incriminating video photographs and tweets from the Steubenville High School football team allegedly involved in a gang rape of an underage girl in rural Ohio They also released a number of e mails and photos hacked from the e mail account of one of the football programs boosters whom they alleged to have helped cover up the case 195 Attack on the Mexican Army website edit See also Yo Soy 132 student protests On January 13 2013 the SEDENA the Mexican Army website was penetrated by the Anonymous branch in Mexico and all the information found on the vulnerable servers was disclosed including usernames and passwords The content of the site was changed for a video with images of the riots that occurred during Pena Nieto s presidential inauguration on December 1 2013 and a voice in the background pronounces the Zapatista manifesto The reason behind the attack was in retaliation for what they called the return of an oppressive government imposed by electoral fraud 196 Aaron Swartz Suicide edit In January 2013 the group attacked and defaced the United States Sentencing Commission website turning it into a game page repeatedly after which traffic to the website made it crash following the suicide of Reddit co founder and activist Aaron Swartz Swartz was accused of stealing materials from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with intent to distribute them freely 197 Federal Reserve edit The Federal Reserve was hacked by Anonymous in February 2013 198 Operation North Korea edit See also 2013 Korean crisis and Cyberactivism in North Korea On April 2 2013 a professional IT webzine BGR carried out an article stating that hacker group Anonymous has started the Operation Free Korea This calls for controversial leader Kim Jong un to resign install free democracy abandon its nuclear ambitions uncensored Internet access etc The hackers also proclaimed that if North Korea do not accede to their demand they will wage Cyber War 199 On April 3 2013 hacker group identifying itself as Anonymous claimed it had stolen all 15 000 user passwords as part of a cyberwar against the DPRK 200 A few days later Anonymous claimed to have hacked into the Uriminzokkiri main website and the Twitter and Flickr pages representing the website 201 Instead a picture posted Thursday on the North s Flickr site shows Kim s face with a pig like snout and a drawing of Mickey Mouse on his chest Underneath the text reads Threatening world peace with ICBMs and Nuclear weapons Wasting money while his people starve to death It found common ground with its alleged arch enemy and hacktivist The Jester in which the latter had claimed responsibility for the cyberattacks against Air Koryo and other North Korean websites 202 On June 22 2013 Anonymous claimed that it managed to steal military documents from North Korea and that the documents would be released on June 25 the day the Korean War started However no such documents appear to have been released 203 Op Israel edit OpIsrael was a coordinated cyber attack by anti Israel individuals and Anonymous affiliated groups that target websites perceived as Israeli 204 205 The attack mostly denial of service assaults was coordinated to coincide with Holocaust Remembrance Day 206 OpIsrael s stated goal was to erase Israel from the internet 207 208 The attack targeted several government online operations banking and commerce sites but most of the cyber attacks were repelled with no significant damage done although an attack may have succeeded in temporarily taking down the Central Bureau of Statistics site Media and small business sites were also targeted and some attacks succeeded in temporarily replacing some of homepages with anti Israel slogans 208 209 However there were several Facebook pages Twitter feeds and web sites from the alleged hackers making false claims to have caused Israel to lose 5 billion and Tel Aviv loses all Internet connection It was one of Anonymous s biggest failures 210 Nir Goldshlager a famous white hat hacker and CEO of Break Security Goldshlager told reporters that OpIsrael hackers lacked the sophistication and knowledge while they told many lies to enhance their reputations 210 Israeli hackers responded to OpIsrael by taking down the OpIsrael website and replacing it with pro Israel statements and the Israeli national anthem Hatikvah In addition they brought down anti Israeli sites like Hezbollah s and Islamic Jihad s websites and targeted servers belonging to hackers and broke into the personal computers of the European leaders of the operation and told them to look for the facts and not believe everything they see on the Internet 210 211 2012 Cleveland police shooting incident edit In December 2012 Cleveland police fired 137 rounds at a car killing its two occupants 212 Anonymous responded in April 2013 by releasing the personal information of the officers involved 213 12 officers were later fired or disciplined for their role in the shooting although criminal charges are still being considered by a grand jury 212 Rehtaeh Parsons edit In response to the suicide of Rehtaeh Parsons and the lack of action on the part of Canadian authorities Anonymous threatened to release the personal information of the rapists However the group claimed to back down from the threat following pleas from Parsons mother Leah 214 The group has staged protests outside the Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters in Halifax 215 nbsp Wikinews has related news Anonymous muscle in on Canadian teen rape case Sabah Crisis edit In March 2013 during the Lahad Datu standoff tension in Sabah due to the clashes between the Royal Army of the Sultanate of Sulu and Malaysian security Forces A Cyberwar sparks between Philippines and Malaysia According to the Philippine Cyber Army the Malaysian hackers appeared to have started the attacks and defacement on Philippine websites posting online threats and videos meaning to send a message to the Filipinos to keep away from the region of Sabah 216 In response to their attacks the Philippine Cyber Army defaced 175 Malaysian sites including state owned pages The Mcafee Lab Researchers in their 2013 Threats Report placed the Philippine Cyber Army in the list of Global Threats on hacktivism 217 The Philippine Cyber Army are close to Anonymous 217 Philippine Coast Guard incident edit On May 9 2013 a number of Philippine Coast Guard soldiers fired at an unarmed Taiwanese fishing boat Guang Da Xing No 28 and killed a Taiwanese fisherman in international waters On May 10 Hackers recognizing themselves as AnonTAIWAN hacked into Philippine Official websites asking for the Philippines government to apologize to Taiwan s government They interfered with government official websites of the Philippines causing inconveniences for the Philippine General Election Its resulted in great difficulty and delay in making general access through the Philippine government websites at the time of elections 218 EDL edit In May 2013 Anonymous published the personal information of various English Defence League members online in what Anonymous said was the first part of an attempt to destroy the far right protest movement 219 Public NSA documents edit On June 7 2013 Anonymous released what was claimed to be secret documents related to the NSA In reality the documents were already publicly available 220 Hawthorne dog shooting incident edit On June 30 2013 a Hawthorne California police officer Jeffrey Salmon of Torrance was filmed shooting a dog and arresting his owner Anonymous responded by issuing a video threat to the police department 221 The city website also suffered a DDoS attack although it is unclear if Anonymous was involved 222 Nigeria anti gay laws edit On July 4 2013 Anonymous hacked the national website of Nigeria after the country passed laws that would make homosexuality punishable by up to 14 years in prison 223 The GCSB edit Anonymous NZ a New Zealand based offshoot of Anonymous carried out its first operation by staging a DDoS on the web site of the Government Communications Security Bureau GCSB following the passage of law changes that allowed the electronic intelligence agency to surveil New Zealand citizens In addition the web sites of politicians who supported the law changes were also shut down by Anonymous NZ 224 Operation Singapore edit Main article 2013 Singapore cyberattacks From August 20 2013 to November 5 2013 the group launched attacks on various websites including Ang Mo Kio Town Council National Museum of Singapore which they leaked 3 600 emails IP addresses and names from 225 PAP Community Foundation and The Straits Times 226 National Party linked websites attacks edit Anonymous New Zealand claimed attacks on National Party linked websites in protest against the GCSB Bill have had no thanks from spied on internet mogul Kim Dotcom 224 Support of anti PDAF movement edit Anonymous Philippines has hacked 115 government websites prompting Philippine law enforcement agencies to go after them citing the unnecessary use of hacking 227 The NBI has been ordered to probe into the hacking of government websites 228 While a few Senators have downplayed the attacks they were willing to listen to their grievances 229 Senator Trillanes IV expressed alarm with the group s capabilities suggesting the possibility of the group to hack government websites since it could compromise State operations and data storage 229 2014 edit OpJustina edit In response to the controversial custodial case of Justina Pelletier in which the Boston s Children Hospital alleged her parents of child abuse while Justina was believed to have contracted a mitochondrial disorder Anonymous performed DDOS attacks against the hospital As a result a member was arrested after an unsuccessful flight attempt to Cuba 230 231 Operation Ferguson edit Anonymous posted a video warning to the Ferguson Missouri police admonishing them for fatally shooting Mike Brown an unarmed African American teenager and swearing revenge if any protesters demonstrating against the police are harmed The group which has adopted the Guy Fawkes mask as its symbol and frequently becomes involved in contentious legal matters said in the video late Sunday Brown s death Saturday is just the latest example of police misconduct having deadly big consequences 232 On August 12 a series of doxes were released against Jon Belmar the St Louis County Police Chief There were two reasons for this target 1 Because he refused to release the name of the officer who shot Mike Brown and 2 Because he challenged Anonymous calling their threats hollow A Twitter account affiliated with Anonymous struck back with information regarding Belmar s location phone number family members and their accounts on social media 233 That same account also released information claiming to be the dox of the officer who shot Brown but wound up being incorrect 234 Operation Hong Kong edit Main article 2014 Hong Kong protests Anonymous posted a video warning on News2Share 235 to the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on October 1 announcing the engagement of Operation Hong Kong condemning the government s police s use of force in the ongoing protests 236 The group stated that it supports the protesters fight for democracy 237 and promised the government that if the protesters are further harmed or harassed they would attack all web based assets of the Hong Kong Government including but not limited to the taking down of government websites seizing of government databases and releasing the personal information on government officials Anonymous stated that it is time for democracy for the people of Hong Kong and condemns the police for harming the citizens and calls for them to instead protect the citizens On October 2 there have been reports that Anonymous have already taken over a few company websites in Hong Kong in accordance to a Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily 238 The Hong Kong Government responded that its servers and web assets are functioning normally and have arranged to strengthen its cyber defences The Government further stated that it is prepared against any attempts by Anonymous hackers on its servers and web assets 239 Operation Infosurge edit November 8 Anonymous Leyte began hacking Philippine government websites to protest the alleged incompetence government officials exhibited in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Yolanda Haiyan 240 More than 10 government websites were defaced by the said group and 33 more were brought rendered inaccessible for up to 7 hours 241 and a week before the Department of Trade and Industry DTI was reportedly hacked 242 with some 2 000 email addresses usernames and password hashes released on Pastebin 243 The Operation Infosurge was done during the Haiyan Anniversary which was expected to be a day of prayer and thanksgiving but turned out to be a day of protest from different online groups and organizations in Philippines 244 2015 editCharlie Hebdo response edit In response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting the Anonymous released a statement offering condolences to the families affected by it and denounced the attacks as an inhuman assault on freedom of expression They also addressed the terrorists a message for al Qaeda the Islamic State and other terrorists we are declaring war against you the terrorists As such Anonymous plans to target Jihadist websites and social media accounts linked to supporting Islamic terrorism with the aim of disrupting them and shutting them down 245 Gas station hacks edit On February 11 Anonymous hacked at least 1 gas station automated tank gauge changing the online name from DIESEL to WE ARE LEGION Theregister co uk stated that a hacker with this kind of access could shut down the entire station by spoofing the reported fuel level generating false alarms and locking the monitoring service out of the system 246 Operation Death Eaters edit During the week of February 14 Anonymous launched Operation Death Eaters for collating evidence against international pedophile rings and their severe abuse of children to bring them to justice 247 Operation Stop Reclamation edit On April 2 2015 The Pro Philippine Hackers of Anonymous Philippines attacked and defaced a total of 132 Chinese government educational and commercial websites in response to China s reclamation work in territorial disputes in the South China Sea parts of which Manila calls the West Philippine Sea 248 Operation Anon Down edit On July 17 2015 an Anon in a Guy Fawkes mask was shot and killed by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMP officer As a result Anonymous websites and YouTube channels vowed revenge initiating Operation Anon Down The RCMP website was reported down nationwide on July 19 249 250 Operation StormFront edit On July 21 2015 Anonymous posted a video claiming that due to Racism Antisemitism Islamophobia and Holocaust Denial they were going to attack the website Stormfront 251 This website is a white supremacist website run by former KKK Leader Don Black The attack was planned for August 1 2015 252 Operation KKK OPKKK edit Operation KKK says it has identifying data on as many as 1 000 KKK members and supporters On Oct 22 2015 an Anonymous associated Twitter account announced that the hacking collective had accessed a Klan associated Twitter account and promised that they would expose about 1 000 Klan members by name A later news release promised that the operation would release names and Web sites new and old of more than 1000 members of the hate group According to the Daily Dot Anonymous later released a few hundred names Facebook pages and Google accounts 253 254 2016 editOperation Comelec edit Main article Commission on Elections data breach Anonymous Philippines hacked the Commission on Elections COMELEC website to force them to add security to vote count machines VCMs The hacking was followed by a voters personal information leak 255 led by LulzSec Pilipinas 256 who placed them in the website wehaveyourdata com Paul Biteng a 20 year old information technology IT graduate and one of the hackers of the COMELEC website was soon arrested by National Bureau of Investigation NBI agents 257 Operation Single Gateway edit After the failure of its single gateway system the Thai government proposed amendments to the existing Computer Crime Act in May 2016 which they approved on December 16 Anonymous declared cyberwar on Thailand after the passing of these amendments The amendments allowed the government to censor websites and intercept private communications without a court order or warrant Anonymous started a Facebook group called citizens against single gateway to protest against these acts Other anonymous members DDoSed several Thailand government websites One of these F5 powered DDoS attacks hit Thailand s defense website on December 19 It was later revealed that hackers also breached the Thai Police Office website on December 17 The website of the Tourism and Sports was also targeted and attacked on December 23 Several Thai citizens who were part of anonymous ranging from ages 17 20 were arrested 258 2017 editOperation Darknet Relaunch edit Visitors to more than 10 000 Tor based websites were met with an alarming announcement on February 3 11 50 AM EST Hello Freedom Hosting II you have been hacked A group affiliating itself with Anonymous had compromised servers at Freedom Hosting II a popular service for hosting websites accessible only through Tor Anonymous claimed they stole 75 GB worth of files and 2 6 GB of databases and that some of the data stored on the Freedom Hosting II servers contained child pornography 259 260 According to Sarah Jamie Lewis an independent anonymity and privacy researcher who spotted the mass hack as part of her regular scans of the Onion space Dark Web sites running on the Tor network Freedom Hosting II was hosting an estimated 20 of all websites on the Dark Web 261 262 2018 editUnconfirmed hack of Gabon s official websites edit Anonymous had reportedly attacked at least 70 Gabon s official sites putting them offline They said that their actions targeted dictatorships however there was no independent confirmation of the Anonymous claim 263 2019 editChilean Army emails leak edit Anonymous accessed six email accounts of the Chilean Army and revealed 2 34 gigabytes of data related to intelligence operations finances and international relations generated and received by those emails from 2015 to 2019 The leaked data encompassed a total of 44 emails 1 340 documents 401 images 53 text files 10 webpages nine folders and three videos Anonymous also published a series of press articles internal newsletters travel information judicial notices and resolutions purchase quotes seminars and other files of the institution As a result in an official statement the Chilean Army had activated its cybersecurity protocols to prevent similar acts from happening in the future while pointing out that the affected accounts were provided by an external company which were being used to interact share and or send and receive data with suppliers or institutions with a regular relationship with the Chilean Army 264 OpHongKong edit During the 2019 Hong Kong protests and the siege of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Anonymous announced its hack on four Chinese MongoDB databases in which they had donated to a data breach notification service vigilante pw In a media statement they warned that all is possible nothing is secure and if Hong Kong is suppressed then China would eye Taiwan as the next target which can precede a World War 3 while referencing the Terminator movie quote There s no fate but what we make for ourselves 265 2020 editPro Taiwan hacks edit In February Anonymous hacked the United Nations website and created a page for Taiwan a country which has not had a seat at the UN since 1971 266 The hacked page featured the Flag of the Republic of China the KMT emblem a Taiwan Independence flag the Anonymous logo and embedded YouTube videos such as the National Anthem of the Republic of China and the closing score for the 2019 film Avengers Endgame titled It s Been a Long Long Time along with a caption The defacement lasted for at least 14 hours and the hacked server belonged to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs 267 268 269 Anonymous had also hacked the World Health Organization s website and added identical pages seen during the UN hack alongside numerous jukebox pages that contain assorted Anonymous videos such as that of a statement by a Taiwanese member of the decentralised organization saying that China has broken many previous peace treaties in the past including in Tibet and a scene from 2018 film Maze Runner The Death Cure The group has left a cryptic message UN Have you gotten the Korean memos wherein the Korean memos is in reference to a peace plan proposed in the book Stop North Korea A Radical New Approach to Solving the North Korea Standoff written by former Inha University professor Shepherd Iverson In the book he suggested buying out North Korea to achieve re unification of the Korean peninsula During an interview with Taiwan News they stated that the original goals of hacking the United Nation s website was to promote Shepherd Iverson s aforementioned peace plan along with a modified version by hacktivist Cyber Anakin 270 271 A few days later the group hacked a Chinese governmental website and inserts a portrait collage featuring the presidents of Republic of China Aside from putting out a manifesto stating that we speak for the people they also taunted that the knowledge of HTML is sufficient enough to re take mainland China The deface page also included unrelated references such as an embedded Reddit post regarding the stepping down of former r HITMAN subreddit moderator misconfig exe due to alleged mod abuse and the five demands of 2019 20 Hong Kong protests 272 273 PLDTHacked edit On May 28 2020 the Twitter account of PLDT s customer service was hacked by a Filipino anonymous group as a protest to the terrible internet connection serviced by PLDT The hackers also changed the profile s name to PLDT Doesn t Care 274 The first tweet by the hackers states As the pandemic arises Filipinos need fast internet to communicate with their loved ones Do your job The corrupt fear us the honest support us the heroic join us We are Anonymous We are Legion We do not forgive We do not forget Expect us 275 BlackLivesMatter Movement edit Anonymous declared a large hacking sequence on May 28 three days after the murder of George Floyd An individual claiming to be Anonymous stated that We are Legion We do not forgive We do not forget Expect us in a now deleted video Anonymous addressed police brutality and vowed that they will be exposing your many crimes to the world It is suspected that Anonymous are the cause for the downtime and public suspension of the Minneapolis Police Department website and its parent site the website of the City of Minneapolis The webpage belonging to a minor United Nations agency was also turned into a memorial for George Floyd 276 277 BlueLeaks edit Main article BlueLeaks Anonymous claimed responsibility for stealing and leaking a trove of documents collectively nicknamed BlueLeaks The 269 gigabyte collection was published by a leak focused activist group known as Distributed Denial of Secrets 278 Bolsonaro hack and support of Julian Assange edit In June 4 a group of hackers has released personal information on Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and his family and cabinet Justice minister Andre Mendonca asked the Federal Police to begin an investigation Then a parliamentary inquiry by the Brazilian Congress investigating the issue of fake news on the internet issued a report showing that the federal government used R 2 million in public money to fund advertising on several websites some of them responsible for supporting the president Anonymous took down Atlanta Police Department s website via DDoS and defaced websites such as a Filipino governmental webpage and that of Brookhaven National Labs They expressed support for Julian Assange and press freedom while briefly taking a swing against Facebook Reddit and Wikipedia for having engaged in shady practices behind our prying eyes In the case of Reddit they posted a link to a court document describing the possible involvement of a moderator of a large traffic subreddit r news in an online harassment related case 279 280 UgandanLivesMatter edit On November 20 2020 the Uganda Police website was hacked as it was down for a number of days Anonymous came out and claimed the hack in a tweet in response to the violent crackdown on protesters following the arrest of presidential candidate popstar Bobi Wine Uganda Police PoliceUg have murdered at least 28 people arrested 577 and injured dozens more with live ammunition beatings tear gas and water cannons At a protest challenging President Yoweri Museveni s 34 year reign UgandaIsBleeding ugandanlivesmatter read the retweet by Anonymous International account The first tweet about the hack was done by a claimed member of Anonymous stating that Uganda police force website has been taken offline in response to the violent crackdown on protesters They should have expected us 281 2021 edit OpsWakeUp21 edit Anonymous announced cyber attacks on at least five Malaysian websites including that of Johor and Sabah state governments as well as the International Trade and Industry Ministry As a result 11 individuals were nabbed as suspects 282 Operation Jane and Epik hack edit See also Texas Heartbeat Act and 2021 Epik data breach The Texas Heartbeat Act a law which bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy came into effect in Texas on September 1 2021 The law relies on private citizens to file civil lawsuits against anyone who performs or induces an abortion or aids and abets one once cardiac activity in an embryo can be detected via transvaginal ultrasound which is usually possible beginning at around six weeks of pregnancy 283 Shortly after the law came into effect anti abortion organizations set up websites to collect whistleblower reports of suspected violators of the bill 284 On September 3 Anonymous announced Operation Jane a campaign focused on stymying those who attempted to enforce the law by exhaust ing the investigational resources of bounty hunters their snitch sites and online gathering spaces until no one is able to maintain data integrity 284 On September 11 the group hacked the website of the Republican Party of Texas replacing it with text about Anonymous an invitation to join Operation Jane and a Planned Parenthood donation link 285 On September 13 Anonymous released a large quantity of private data belonging to Epik a domain registrar and web hosting company known for providing services to websites that host far right neo Nazi and other extremist content 286 Epik had briefly provided services to an abortion whistleblower website run by the anti abortion Texas Right to Life organization but the reporting form went offline on September 4 after Epik told the group they had violated their terms of service by collecting private information about third parties 287 The data included domain purchase and transfer details account credentials and logins payment history employee emails and unidentified private keys 288 The hackers claimed they had obtained a decade s worth of data which included all customers and all domains ever hosted or registered through the company and which included poorly encrypted passwords and other sensitive data stored in plaintext 288 289 Later on September 13 the Distributed Denial of Secrets DDoSecrets organization said they were working to curate the allegedly leaked data for public download and said that it consisted of 180 gigabytes of user registration forwarding and other information 290 Publications including The Daily Dot and The Record by Recorded Future subsequently confirmed the veracity of the hack and the types of data that had been exposed 291 289 Concurrently the group announced that they have hacked the accounts of German conspiracy theorist Attila Hildmann as a result one of its Twitter accounts AnonNewsDE has been suspended and in turn caused reactions from politicians such as the MEP of the German Pirate Party Patrick Breyer who had recommended the microblogging service Mastodon as an alternative The hacker collective wrote that the blocking does not restrict the group in its work The suspension caused the hashtag FreeAnonNewsDe to be trending on Twitter in Germany 292 293 Hack of Chinese websites edit Starting from Sept 30 Anonymous hacked a Chinese government tourism promotion website and uploaded several documents and images into its file directory which was shared to Reddit by a user Allez opi omi The hack lasted for about three days and was divided in three rounds where in the first round they posted items pertaining to Anonymous emblem the Taiwanese flag the Taiwanese anthem a pro Taiwan independence banner photo of the Chinese medical whistleblower Li Wenliang and memes such as that of mocking Epik CEO Rob Monster that of calling people to fight the COVID 19 pandemic like Bruce Lee and that of showing the leader of China s Xi Jinping imposed on the body of an Apple executive introducing the COVID 19 COVID 19 R COVID 19 Pro and COVID 19 Pro Max instead of the latest iPhone 13 models They also posted a document from Anonymous Malaysia accusing an Instagram TikTok influencer that calls himself Kuaanzii of being a serial rapist who had allegedly victimized over one hundred women while naming an individual Neo Yeaken as an accomplice and included links to relevant Malaysian local news articles in the document Finally a cryptic meme that reads Things are about to get moar snippy was posted 294 295 In the second round of the hack they uploaded the Tank Man photo alongside an edited version that shows the text of When you just started a game and you re trying to figure out how strong your character is together with recreations of the picture in various video games Aside from uploading photos of cartoon character Winnie the Pooh and that of Taiwan s national emblem they also included a page titled BONUS Throwback Thursday Anonymous 2020 Christmas Gift which includes links to hacked pages of the Football Federation of the Russia s Astrakhan region In turn they contained images of Russian dissidents more Taiwan symbols Milk Tea Alliance memes and other symbols of defiance against autocratic regimes 296 297 In the final round of the hack against the Chinese tourism website Anonymous posted the images of Presidents of Republic of China the anti communist song Go and Reclaim the Mainland 反攻大陸去 and memes including that of exhorting Taiwan to redress the 1987 Lieyu Massacre in order to truly become Numbah Wan a non sequitur photo that reads The soul of Afghanistan shall live long and prosper which seemingly supports the fallen Islamic Republic of Afghanistan against Taliban a Ready Player One related meme that takes a swipe at Chinese Communist Party CCP general secretary Xi Jinping s handling of the pandemic where it reads All homies coming at CCP because of how Pooh mismanaged the COVID and a wojak meme that poked fun at the Marxist Leninist subreddit r GenZedong and the vexed reaction of their members to the hack Other than these they also posted a message delivered by former US President John F Kennedy to the Chinese American Businessmen s Committee Meeting in Chicago in 1960 that described the communist regime in Beijing as the totalitarian government which temporarily rules the Chinese mainland and affirmed U S opposition to China s admission to the United Nations They uploaded a 255 page U S patent application published in 2014 for anti pathogen treatments which is made by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology s inventor Finally Anonymous uploaded a post stating that We are Anonymous We are Legion We do not Forgive We do not Forget Expect Us and closed by announcing The Internet Hate Machine hates and will always hate fascists and rapists 298 299 Next they have hacked the Chinese Qinghai Province s official website through privilege escalation where they posted contents such as Taiwanese independence flag a five page manifesto that starts with a silhouette of Rick Astley and lyrics from his song Never Gonna Give You Up the manifesto included references to the Taiwan numbah wan and West Taiwan memes an illustration of Winnie the Pooh a defense of Li Wenliang and the slogans One World One Dream Free Tibet Free Hong Kong Revolution of our times and Milk Tea Alliance Forever It describes Mao Zedong as a worse monster than Hitler and Stalin combined and calls for a boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics They also uploaded the Tibet independence flag a political compass meme mocking Mike Parson the governor of Missouri USA and a red banhammer meme that juxtaposes the red field and five gold stars of the Chinese flag with a golden gavel The banhammer meme was directed at Reddit as a protest of the shadowbanning of one of the group s accounts 300 Hack of Brazilian municipal website edit The Brazilian branch of the hacking group hacked the website of the Brumadinho City Hall and left a video to commemorate the dam disaster that occurred on 25 January 2019 which caused the deaths of 270 people 301 Hack of United Nations website during Christmas edit Nearing Christmas the hacking collective posted pro Taiwan materials such as Taiwanese national flag anthem and emblem into the UN Networks on Migration website They also posted other materials such as the closing score for the 2019 film Avengers Endgame titled It s Been a Long Long Time reminiscent of the 2020 hack and the music video of Mandopop song Fragile by Malaysian rapper Namewee and Taiwan based Australian singer Kimberley Chen Next they expressed solidarity to the victims of December 2021 Malaysian floods Besides that they posted HTML codes displaying the Anonymous previous work and a peace plan idea in attempt to halt the Russo Ukrainian War in Ukraine In the latter they called for a referendum on whether to presumably follow the existing Minsk Protocol or hand over the separatist controlled territories to a UN peacekeeping administration Later a second referendum in the separatist regions would then ask voters to choose to reunite with Ukraine gain independence or join Russia 302 2022 editPolar Research Institute of China hack edit The hacking collective defaced a website belonging to the Polar Research Institute of China with pro Taiwan slogans Taiwan s national flag and emblem The Anti Communist and Anti Russian Aggression Song and the music video of Mandopop song Fragile They also dedicated some of their defacements in attempt to propagate solutions to the 2021 2022 Russo Ukrainian crisis including by calling for the creation of a neutral grouping of countries wedged between NATO and Russia that would include Ukraine Finland Belarus Georgia Armenia Azerbaijan and Moldova Anonymous argued that the so called neutral security belt could serve as an alliance similar to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation NATO or the Collective Security Treaty Organization CSTO that acts as a cordon sanitaire between NATO and CSTO countries in order to assuage Russia s fears without NATO losing its face They embedded Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft senior fellow Anatol Lieven s paper Ending the Threat of War in Ukraine at the defacement page while concurring with him on the possibility for a referendum in Ukraine s Donbass region on its ultimate fate although reminiscent of a preceding hacking operation by the group and differing from the senior fellow s paper they included the possibility of handing over the territories of Donbass to a United Nations peacekeeper administration in the hypothetical referendum 303 Convention of Biological Diversity website hack edit Anonymous hacked into the website for the Clearing House Mechanism of the Convention on Biological Diversity CHM which is a part of the Convention on Biological Diversity CBD website The CBD falls under the UN Environment Programme In there they published materials such as the usual Anonymous logo a photo of a person wearing a black hoodie and a Guy Fawkes mask contents that appeared in previous hacks such as the Taiwan Numbah Wan meme Taiwanese flag and national symbols proposals to defuse the Russo Ukrainian crisis and the music video of Mandopop song Fragile Besides that they included two screenshots of an apparent hack of the International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO website and a link to an article calling for an Operation Warp Speed 2 0 to develop new methods to battle the COVID 19 virus together with an embedded video that introduces a group of MIT developed experimental antiviral drugs called DRACO whose acronym stands for double stranded RNA activated caspase oligomerizer 304 OpSamanthaSmith edit During the hack of the official website for the Pingxiang County branch of the CCP based in Hebei Province s Xingtai City Anonymous announced the launch of Operation Samantha Smith or OpSamanthaSmith a reference to the 1980s child peace activist The operation was presumably dedicated into resolving the 2021 2022 Russo Ukrainian crisis Besides posting materials such as the Anonymous group symbols flag of the Republic of China the picture of tennis star Peng Shuai and a bonus page titled Ah Girls Go Army the hacking collective threatened in red text to take hostage of industrial control systems if the NATO Russia tensions in Ukraine continues to worsen In an apparent warning meant for Russia Anonymous wrote that the sole party to be blamed if we escalate on that will be the same one who started it in the very first place with troop buildups childish threats and waves of unreasonable ultimatums Anonymous also urged the United Nations to immediately deploy peacekeepers on at least the Ukrainian side of the frontline in Donbass under the basis of UN Resolution 337 V to prevent any further provocations by any side 305 In the aftermath of Russia s recognition of the Donetsk People s Republic and the Luhansk People s Republic and in accordance to the hacking collective s threats to take hostage of industrial control systems they conducted a small hack on a Russian Modbus device which they ve announced on a hacked Chinese cultural website although early on Anonymous kept the location of the hack ambiguous According to Anonymous the Modbus device was said to be a Schneider Electric s Modicon M251 logic controller and that they were previously playing nice so not to give Russia a casus belli but because of the subsequent 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine OpSamanthaSmith was presumably deemed as a failure and Anonymous would start attacking Russian websites and systems as retaliation 306 Operations during the Russian invasion of Ukraine edit See also Russo Ukrainian War 2022 Ukraine cyberattacks 2021 2022 Russo Ukrainian crisis Timeline of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and Anonymous and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Anonymous declared that they had launched cyber operations against the Russian Federation in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine ordered by Russian president Vladimir Putin Websites targeted include the state controlled RT 307 Anonymous is also believed to be responsible for hacking several Russian state TV channels many users on Twitter and TikTok uploaded videos showing channels playing Ukrainian music and displaying pro Ukraine images flags and symbols 308 They had hacked Russian television services in order to broadcast footage of the war in Ukraine and systems believed to be related to Russian space agency Roscosmos where they defaced its website and leaked mission files 309 310 311 A yacht allegedly belonging to Vladimir Putin was reportedly hacked by the group where they changed its call sign to FCKPTN and setting its target destination to hell They broadcast a troll face picture through a hacked Russian military radio 312 313 At least 2 500 Russian and Belarusian targets were reportedly hacked by Anonymous These included more than three hundred websites of Russian government agencies state media outlets banks as well as websites of leading Belarusian banks such as Belarusbank Priorbank and Belinvestbank They also hacked a website belonging to Chechnya s regional government They also warned that If things continue as they have been in the past few days the cyber war will be expanded and our measures will be massively increased This is the final warning to the entire Russian government Don t mess with Anonymous 314 315 In response to the seizure of Ukraine s Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant by Russia Anonymous defaced the website of Rosatom and gained access to gigabytes of data which they intended to leak publicly They had hacked into printers in Russia to spread anti propaganda messages 316 317 In the aftermath of Bucha massacre the hacking collective leaked the personal information of 120 000 Russian soldiers in Ukraine 318 On Cosmonautics Day which commemorates cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin s Vostok 1 mission to space Anonymous broke into five websites specifically the Russian heavy metal band Aria s site a Russian hockey site a Panerai watch enthusiasts site a basketball team site and an educational organization site to put up defacement pages with pop up messages such as Glory to Ukraine Glory to the defenders and I find the orcs lack of morality disturbing They also included videos featuring Darth Vader and the Star Wars song The Imperial March the online game Roblox disco song Kung Fu Fighting Mandopop music video Fragile and a performance of Ukraine s national anthem by cellist Yo Yo Ma Besides that memes showing characters wearing a Guy Fawkes mask and the acronym A S S which stands for Anonymous Strategic Support were shown Anonymous proposed a list of post war settlement solutions against Russia examples included financial compensation for the victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 the establishment of a United Nations interim administration in occupied territories of Ukraine a referendum on the status of such territories creation of a neutral security belt in the region monetary reparations of at least US 70 billion to Ukraine for reconstruction the fulfillment of Soviet Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956 to presumably resolve the Kuril Islands dispute cession of some Russian Antarctic bases to countries such as Iran agreement to a potential enlargement of UN Security Council to include Brazil South Africa and India with the increase of the minimum number of a successful veto to two or more alongside unusual ones such as the pooling of funds from Russia to develop novel treatments against COVID 19 such as DRACO double stranded RNA activated caspase oligomerizer and long COVID experimental treatment drug BC 007 and to construct a knowledge ark in space ideally located at least in the middle region of the Asteroid Belt within Solar System They leaked 446 GB of data from Russian Ministry of Culture 319 Anonymous leaked 446 GB of data from the Russian Ministry of Culture 320 and had hacked Russian companies Aerogas Forest and Petrovsky Fort From there they leaked around 437 500 emails which they donated to non profit whistleblower organization Distributed Denial of Secrets Following that the hacking collective hacked and leaked 87 500 emails from an engineering firm Neocom Geoservice which specialises in exploring oil and gas fields and providing drilling support 321 322 In a similar fashion mentioned above Russian investment company Accent Capital had its computer systems hacked and its 365 000 letters leaked online 323 On May 9 2022 which is the Victory Day in Russia the video hosting website RuTube was taken down through cyberattacks which Anonymous had claimed responsibility later Network Battalion 65 NB65 a hacktivist group affiliated with Anonymous has reportedly hacked Russian payment processor Qiwi A total of 10 5 terabytes of data including transaction records and customers credit cards had been exfiltrated They further infected Qiwi with ransomwares and threatened to release more customer records 324 325 Anonymous proceeded to hack Russian firms SOCAR Energoresource and Metprom Group LLC and dump their emails the latter which was hacked by the Anonymous actors DepaixPorteur B00daMooda and Wh1t3Sh4d0w 326 327 Anonymous hacked into Vyberi Radio and published more than 1 000 000 emails 328 DDoSecrets published 1 terabyte of data obtained from Anonymous which included millions of files including emails court files client data classified data photographs videos payment information and more from Rustam Kurmaev and Partners RKPLaw which was hacked by Anonymous actors DepaixPorteur and B00daMooda 329 330 331 Anonymous member YourAnonSpider had reportedly hacked into a Russian military UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicles company in which plans and tactics regarding the use of drones in warfare had been stolen 332 The collective claimed responsibility for hacking Yandex Taxi on early September 2022 which sent dozens of cars to a location resulting in a traffic jam that lasted up to three hours 333 Hack of Australian police emails edit The hacking collective leaked 82GB of emails from Australian police in protest of that country s offshore detention of refugees 334 Nancy Pelosi s Taiwan visit edit During the visit of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan the website of Taiwan s Office of the President website was affected by a distributed denial of service attack As a response Anonymous hacked into China Heilongjiang province s Society Scientific Community Federation website and uploaded a HTML page with the words Taiwan Numbah Wan Taiwanese flag and emblem photos of Pelosi and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing wen and the words Taiwan welcomes US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi A footage showing Taipei 101 s display of signs welcoming Pelosi s visit is shown which reads Speaker Pelosi Welcome to TW Thank you and TW hearts US Finally they embedded a Reddit comment from r taiwan subreddit that read Aged like milk while showing a picture of a tweet made by New Zealand journalist Andy Boreham predicting that Pelosi would not come to Taiwan because the US cannot fly a military aircraft into Chinese airspace yes incl Taiwan without permission and that it would be a suicide mission Anonymous hacked into a Chinese gasoline generator factory s website and argued that True there is one China but Taiwan is the real China and that the regime in Beijing is only an imitation straight out of wish com 335 336 As a retaliation against the cyberattacks against National Taiwan University the collective hacked a Chinese real estate website and included links to other deface pages in hacked Russian websites Besides posting Taiwanese flag and emblem they argued that the Soviet Vostok 1 crewed space mission was uncomplete under the stipulation within Section 8 paragraph 2 15 item b of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale FAI sporting code that a flight is deemed to be uncompleted if any member of the crew definitively leaves the spacecraft during flight as its pilot Yuri Gagarin had ejected from his capsule before it landed From that they reportedly said that America s Alan Shepard and John Glenn who were both inside their capsules when they splashed down should be considered as first humans in space Analogies to American British inventor Hiram Maxim were made Regarding the technicality although there are pragmatist arguments which posited that Alan Shepard and John Glenn should be considered as first person to legally complete a spaceflight mission and the first to actually complete an orbit around Earth respectively 337 338 339 the National Air and Space Museum reported that the FAI reworked its guidelines by emphasizing the launch orbiting and safe return of the human over the method in which the landing took place to enable Gagarin to receive the record for the first person in space along with other claimed records specifically that of duration in orbital flight 108 minutes greatest altitude in earth orbital flight by a single person spacecraft which remains standing as of August 2022 327 kilometres 203 mi 340 and the greatest mass lifted in earth orbital flight 4 725 kilograms 10 417 lb 341 Hack of United Nations Event Proposal Tool website edit On early September 2022 Anonymous hacked the United Nations Event Proposal Tool website to post flags such as that of Taiwan and its pro independence movement Kosovo Belarusian opposition Russian opposition Green Ukraine alongside photo depicting Yuri Gagarin as a clown and six pages of manifesto text which emphasized that Yuri Gagarin had ejected from his capsule before it landed and should not qualify as the first man in space and called for the establishment of a 30 kilometer demilitarized zone around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant The defacement ends with closing comments by Anonymous such as calls for American citizens to vote wisely in the 2022 United States Senate elections and 2022 United States House of Representatives elections to avoid going down Russia s path 342 Iranian Protests edit Over the death of Mahsa Amini Anonymous took out Iranian websites on their word to help the Iranian people Besides that they had hacked the databases of Iranian parliament 343 344 Revenge hacks over Wikipedia edit war edit In September an editing war broke out over a Wikipedia article covering Anonymous member Cyber Anakin Suspecting a Chinese influence operation involving a Wikipedia user who supported the Chinese Communist Party CCP Anonymous retalitated by hacking into the systems of China s Ministry of Emergency Management and a private Chinese commercial satellite company called Mino Space They uploaded content including images of the Anonymous emblem the Taiwanese flag Queen Elizabeth II and other images related to contemporary news They also uploaded a caricature of Xi Jinping and a manifesto which began Bet you thought you could get away with defiling Wikipedia articles 345 346 347 A few days later Anonymous hacked a United Nations website where it uploaded pro Taiwanese images and included a manifesto that complained about Wikipedia They then notified Taiwan News that they had put Taiwan back into the UN 348 In December Anonymous hacked into an Iranian hajj website and posted images of the Taiwanese flag the 1964 1979 state flag of Iran Mahsa Amini and more criticism of Wikipedia 349 2022 COVID 19 protests in China edit During the 2022 COVID 19 protests in China Anonymous attacked Chinese governmental websites such as an official website in Heilongjiang province and a police surveillance device while leaking personal information of Chinese law enforcement personnel The hacking collective laid out five demands namely the cessation of nucleic acid testing and forced quarantine freedom of speech with the demolition of the internet firewall release of arrested protesters and the dismissal of criminal charges against them resumption of passport processing and opening of national border and the cancellation of life term for national leader 350 2023 editHack on a Chinese research balloon edit In the aftermath of the 2023 Chinese balloon incident Anonymous hacked into the control panels of a Chinese research balloon which has reportedly flied India twice based on flight path while hacking the websites of the Shanghai based DP Art amp Design Center concurrently Contents such as criticism against the CCP for its handling of the COVID pandemic and how it aims to control the world like a James Bond villain through overseas police stations and a photo of the Chinese spy balloon that flew over the U S appeared on defacement pages along with a trailer from the Disney Pixar film Up CNN archive footage of Tank Man in 1989 a ChatGPT generated poem and criticisms against Wikipedia such as systemic biases against article coverages on women so called spending cancer deletionism and point of view skewing They accused Wikipedia for failing to support two Wikipedia Arabic editors Osama Khalid and Ziyad al Sofiani who were imprisoned by Saudi Arabia for swaying public opinion and violating public morals 351 While images of Tyre Nichols Anthony Lowe and Joe Frasure Jr all of whom were killed by police were included Anonymous had criticized the disregard for human and animal lives by the Soviet Union during its pursuit of firsts in the Space Race 351 Screenshots posted by the collective indicated previous flight path for the balloon which started near Nanchang in China s Jiangxi Province and flew southwest over Myanmar Bangladesh southern India the Arabian Sea eastern and central Africa and the Gulf of Guinea The flight path then returned back to the northeast over central and eastern Africa the Arabian Peninsula the Arabian Sea Pakistan India and Nepal before arriving in Beijing They are followed by screenshots showing defacements in the control panel such as Please donate your money to Turkish earthquake victims Where is Peng Shuai CCP did you flew fly your wandering balloons across India RIP Li Wenliang and Free East Turkistan A meme showing an irate Greta Thunberg with the words How dare Wikipedia printed above and Distorts to insult holocaust victims and survivors was posted as well 351 Activities against Russia during the Ukraine war edit In April 2023 to mark the Cosmonautics Day the collective defaced the website of a Russian law enforcement support foundation where they uploaded a memorial to Tseng Sheng guang a Taiwanese soldier who died fighting for Ukraine while hacking into the control systems of machines reporting including a blast furnace The defacements begin with the Anonymous logo a photo of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a video of the New York Philharmonic playing the Ukrainian national anthem and a meme promoting the North Atlantic Fellas Organization an Internet meme movement founded to counter Russian propaganda at the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 These memes were followed by a YouTube video of Ukrainian rap group Kalush Orchestra performing Stefania at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2022 Anonymous claimed that it has always made great strides against Russia since Russia began its immoral war against Ukraine In addition they reiterated their claim that Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin cannot be considered as the first man in space because he ejected from his capsule before it landed They went on to claim that the firsts achieved by the Soviet Union during the Space Race were exaggerated and had been surpassed by the achievements of the United States 352 On July 2023 Anonymous inserted Taiwanese flag photo of Tsai Ing wen along with the flag of fictional Belgorod People s Republic on two United Nations websites specifically that of UN s High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development HLPF and the UN Academy websites There they protested Google s policy of deleting inactive accounts stating that it is harsh and is an action to destroy history They uploaded a text file disputing space exploration claims by the Soviet Union and a PDF version of a paper titled Wikipedia s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust by professors Jan Grabowski and Shira Klein On the UN academy website a pixilated version of Taiwan s national flag and the lyrics of the Taiwanese national anthem are shown Anonymous further threatened Russia against using tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine or jeopardizing the safety of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant remarking that the collective posessed the ultimate ace card without revealing what it is other than to say that it is a trick rather than a treat 353 Opposition against Fukushima wastewater release plan edit On August Anonymous launched cyberattacks against groups that are linked to nuclear power in Japan in order to protest release of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant which was crippled during the nuclear disaster which transpired in 2011 into the sea 354 Pro Taiwan operations on UNESCO websites edit On September Anonymous hacked into the website of UNESCO s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission to upload five waves of contents including images to protest an alleged hate crime proposed solution to the Fukushima wastewater releases and criticisms against Google s policy to purge inactive accounts Pictures such as Taiwan flag police shooting victim Ta Kiya Young victims of the Jacksonville mass shooting in August national seal of the Republic of China Chiang Kai shek s successor Yen Chia kan 嚴家淦 the Shilin Night Market a cup of bubble tea Taipei s Ximending Taitung s Sanxiantai Kaohsiung s Dragon and Tiger Pagodas Nantou s Yushan and Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village logos of 12 of Taiwan s political parties including the Democratic Progressive Party New Power Party Kuomintang and Taiwan People s Party and logos of five TV stations in Taiwan including China Television PTS Formosa TV TTV and CTS Besides that documents such Wikipedia s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust a text file listing grievances against Google and Wikipedia and Mandarin rap song by Tuojiang Yegou 脫韁野狗 Runaway Wild Dog were displayed there 355 Operations during the Israel Palestinian War edit Main article Israel Hamas war On October 7 Anonymous targeted numerous Israeli systems such as the Iron Dome missile defense system the government Israeli websites and cameras 356 Anonymous issued a statement directed to Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli government that the international community was outraged by actions that have resulted in unimaginable devastation with thousands of innocent lives lost including over 4000 children and many more injured and displaced 357 In March 2024 Anonymous stated that if Israel did not agree in a couple of days to a ceasefire they would attack which they did on March 10 attacking Dimona nuclear plant systems by stealing and publishing more than 7 gigabytes of data 358 Hack of United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs edit On December Anonymous hacked a website that is owned by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs where they put contents such as Taiwan s flag symbols and pictures of famous leaders There embedded videos playing Taiwanese national anthem Namewee s Mandopop song Fragile Taiwanese comedian Brian Tseng s Taiwan and Mariah Carey s All I Want for Christmas is You are shown A photo symbolizing Operation 1027 the ongoing joint rebel military operation against Myanmar s military junta was displayed as well While continuing their criticism against Google s policy of deleting inactive accounts where they included a long diatribe against it the hacking collective also called for calm and peace in the context of the 2023 Guyana Venezuela crisis The hacking collective claimed that since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine it has had the ultimate ace card up its sleeve and cryptically says that the ace card is something likely horrific that leads to the dragon s territory The hacking collective said that it is a 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