Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Anonymous, joining Wikileaks, hacks into the big time



ATLANTA, Georgia — Anonymous, a hacker collective that stays true to its name, appears to be entering the big time.

After hacking the emails of Stratfor, the global intelligence firm, and on Monday cooperating with Wikileaks — already world famous for exposing classified US military documents and diplomatic cables — to publish those emails, Anonymous has gained a new level of notoriety among the public, and attention from authorities.

On Monday morning, twitter account @AnonymousIRC published a series of tweets revealing the hacker group as the source of the Stratfor emails and linking it to Wikileaks. Anonymous first accessed Stratfor's emails in December.

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