Anonymous Hacker Group Announced Its Largest Ever Online Attack
The hacker group Anonymous said it launched its largest-ever online attack in retaliation for theU.S.government’s shutdown of one of the world’s largest file-sharing websites, Megaupload, for alleged copyright infringements. More than 5,000 of its members had collaborated to bring down the websites of the Justice Department , the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America, the hacker collective said on Thursday. All three sites were inaccessible on Thursday. The group said in a message on its Twitter account @YourAnonNews that 5,635 people were using denial-of-service attacks to target the websites, including those of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the White House , although both those sites appeared to be working. The action came after federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment against seven people connected with Megaupload, which they said earned $175 million while costing copyright holders more than $500 millio...