'Anonymous Hackers' Targets Pentagon Contractor

Anonymous Hackers Targets Pentagon Contractor

Prior to the ruling of British courts regarding the extradition of Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks site, to Sweden, a group of hackers, known as Anonymous Hackers, attacked an American Military IT company.

The group threatened to seek American and British targets, in retatliation to the accusations of Mr. Assange and News International for spying on British residents.

The latest target of Anonymous is "Booz Allen Hamilton", the largest military contractor that deals with the Pentagon.

In an online statement, the group declared that it was able to hack the systems of the contracting company and steal ninety thousand e-mail addresses and passwords belonging to military staff from various ranks.

Moreover, leaders of this group threatened to target computer systems of the London police and British judicial, and warned that this day will be the biggest day in their history.

According to analysts, Anonymous is using its attacks as means to express its anger after the News International Company's phone hacking scandal, which forced the News of The World newspaper to shut down.

Furthermore, the group wants to show its stance regarding the extradition of Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, to authorities.

The group has already attacked the sites of Amazon, Bank of America, PayPal, Visa and Mastercard, for their refusal to transfer contributions to the Wikileaks account in compliance with U.S. government orders.

Adaptation: Sarah Sfeir
Original report: Ghefar Abu Daqa
Voice: Noora Faraj

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[AnonymousMatrix]

We are Anonymous. We do not approve of illegal acts unless absolutely necessary. WE ARE NOT TERRORISTS! We are activists! We are your neighbors who fight for freedom and justice throughout the world. Recently, there have been trolls and blackhats (hackers meaning only harm) claiming to be Anonymous that have been attacking us and our people. We will not stand for this! We are Anonymous, we are legion, we do not forgive, we do not forget, expect us!

Join us @ whatis-theplan(dot)org

[cantstanddogma]

Jesus I have to sit here behind a enterprise strength firewall with a proxy and then a VPN just to criticize the governments wrongdoing and raping of freedom of speech when they are suppose to protect me on that issue. Instead they lock people up like they do in North Korea for revealing government wrongdoing. Unbelievable.

[NotQuiteLucid]

@cantstanddogma No you don't. I do all that same shit on purpose without one bit of protection. They've got their hands full. No need to be careless and I do this on purpose of course, but they are NOT ALL POWERFUL! They want you to believe they are!

[EvilHero1997]

@THEpillows100 yea thats a good idea

[lmfaoatthat]

@AnonymousMatrix fucking wana beeeeeeee !!

[saxonsiphon]

@AnonymousMatrix shut the fuck up, Biiiiiiiiiiiiiittchhhhh

[imagineers0]

The Borg assilimated Burger King.

[pastorbishop32]

The Blackhats are working for RTM, trying to discredit Anon, because of what they are finding, corruption and dirty tricks all around.

[Allwaswell934]

Although I agree with a lot of their reasons, I don't think the choice should be theirs to make.

[ericgrimm22]

I love anonymous! So fucking awesome

[dwoodstudio]

@loganglover : I think not.. you are a sheep.. and a lemming.. just save yourself time.. jump off a cliff.. cause you know what.. I am not letting you try to get on my property when the shit has hit the fan and you need water.. Just saying.. you will perish in all of this!! dumbass!!