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Did Anonymous Hack Turkish Hospitals Resulting in Massive Data Breach?

A Youtube video with someone using Anonymous Guy Fawkes mask is claiming to leak patient’s data from after hacking hospital servers in Turkey! A hacker claiming links with Anonymous hacktivist group has uploaded a Youtube video claiming to have hacked into the servers of Turkish medical institutions and leaked massive database from the systems. In the […]

Anonymous Target North Carolina Government Sites Against anti-LGBT Law

Can a Bathroom Bill Compel Anonymous to Take Down Websites in North Carolina? — Sure it can! Anonymous, the world’s most active group of hacktivists, has taken down a number of government websites in North Carolina over the last few days. The reason behind attacking the websites is the Bathroom Law. For your information, this […]

OpAfrica: Anonymous Deface South African University, Huge Data Leaked

Anonymous hacks university of Limpopo website leaks a trove faculty and student data for OpAfrica! New World Hackers (NWH), a group of hackers linked with the online hacktivist Anonymous defaced the official website of Limpopo university in South Africa – The hacktivists also leaked a trove of data stolen from the university’s server. The attack was conducted on 13th […]

Anonymous Shut Down 5 More Banking Websites for OpIcarus

Anonymous OpIcarus is underway and the new targets include banking sites in France, UAE, Philippine, Tunisia, Trinidad and Tobago! It looks like the online hacktivist group Anonymous is furious with no plans on giving up on the ongoing operation OpIcarus. We are saying that on the basis of a sudden increase in their cyber attacks on the […]

OpIcarus: Anonymous Shut Down 4 More Banking Websites

Anonymous, BannedOffline group and Ghost Squad are still conducting short term cyber attacks on banking sites around the world — Here is an update of their recent attacks! After a short break, Anonymous, BannedOffline and Ghost Squad are back in action — Their latest targets to face the fury are banking websites in Jordan, South Korea, Monegasque […]

OpIcarus Finds More Targets as Banks in Panama, Bosnia and Kenya Go Offline

Anonymous and Ghost Squad have conducted another series of cyber attacks on banking websites in Kenya, Panama, Bosnia and Herzegovina — The hacktivists vow to carry on targeting the financial giants! It’s been over a week since Anonymous and Ghost Squad began conducting cyber attacks on banking websites worldwide. It’s the weekend now but the hacktivists […]

OpIcarus continues as hacktivists shut down 3 more banking websites

The online hacktivist Anonymous and Ghost Squad Attackers are targeting banking websites worldwide for operation OpIcarus. Though they have their difference, when it comes to OpIcarus it seems the Anonymous hacktivists andGhost Squad group have found mutual interests. It all started when Ghost Squad was hailed as heroes after targeting the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) website before doing what could be deemed […]

OpIcarus: Hacktivists Shut Down Central Bank of Cyprus with DDoS Attack

OpIcarus has found another target and this time it’s the Central Bank of Cyprus. A group of hacktivists shut down the official website of Central Bank of Cyprus earlier today for operation OpIcarus, an online operation aimed at targeting banking and financial institutes worldwide. Operation OpIcarus was launched in January 2016 and restarted in March 2016. […]

Ghost Squad DDoS Black Lives Matter Website Because ‘All Lives Matter’

Attackers have found a new target and this time it’s the official website of the Black Lives Matter movement. Ghost Squad hacktivists have conducted a series of some powerful DDoS attacks on the official website of Black Lives Matter movement forcing it to go offline for the visitors. In the first phase of the attack which was conducted yesterday GS DDoSed […]

Anonymous Leaks 1TB of Data from Kenya’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Anonymous leaked confidential documents from the ministry servers against government corruption. The online hacktivist Anonymous has conducted a sophisticated cyber attack on the government of Kenya by breaching its Foreign ministry server, stealing a trove of data and ending up leaking some of it on the Dark Web. The cyber attack was conducted under the banner of […]

Anonymous Ghost Squad’s DDoS Attack Shuts Down KKK Website

Anonymous has shut down the official website of KKK Knights — It has been about 4 hours that the site is down The official website of Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) has been shut down in a series of powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks just a few hours ago. The group behind this […]

Anonymous Launches Dark Web Chat Service

The infamous hacker collective Anonymous has launched its web chat services on the Deep Web The news was announced on the popular Twitter accounts of the hacktivist group and very soon it was circulating all over social media. The post stated that Deep Web will be hosting Anonymous’ chat service through which the group members […]

Anonymous Shut Down Dalhousie University Website Against Halifax Rape Case

Anonymous conducted DDoS attack on Dalhousie University website against 2015 rape case — Anonymous demands punishment for the culprits In November 2015, HackRead reported about the hacktivist group Anonymous forcing Halifax Regional Municipality police into reopening the investigation of a sexual assault case involving an 18-year-old girl Jane Doe attacked by a fellow student on Halloween night […]

Anonymous Hack Italian Job Portals, Leak Trove of Data Against New Labour Laws

Anonymous has leaked personal details of CEOs, managers and other employees of hotshot companies in Italy to protest against the new labour laws Last year, hackers leaked 1 terabyte of data from the Milan’s Expo 2015 website. Now, the online hacktivist Anonymous Italy – LulzSec ITA has hacked into the websites of several Italian job portals […]

Anonymous Hacks Philippines Election Commission, Leaks 55 Million Voter Data

Anonymous Philippines hacks Commission on Elections (COMELEC) website, leaks 55 Million voter data The Filipino front of online hacktivist Anonymous is in the war against their government for the last couple of years with defacements of websites and leaving messages against the policy makers. Now, once again Anonymous Philippines has hacked and defaced the official website of country’s election […]

Anonymous Conducts Usual DDoS Attacks on Israel for #OpIsrael

“Anonymous” vows to carry on its annual assaults on Israeli infrastructure linked to its #OpIsrael campaign on April 7, 2015 — However, it seems more hype than harm The first attacks in connection with #OpIsrael occurred in 2013, wherein some divisions of the Anonymous hackers mutually launched multiple organized cyber-attacks against Israeli websites on the eve […]

Anonymous Relaunches #OpCanary, Targets Canadian Mining Firm

BCGold Corp Becomes the Newest Victim of Anonymous’ Operation Against Multinationals A few years ago, the infamous hacker group Anonymous launched #OpCanary against MNCs but somehow this particular campaign couldn’t strike a note with the public mainly because it was a bit too heavy to digest. But that was then, today, it’s a completely different […]

Hackers Target NASA with DDoS Attack, Claim to Shutdown Email Servers

Anonymous-linked Hackers Attack NASA’s System for Allegedly Keeping a Huge Secret Anonymous is a loosely connected group of hacktivists that doesn’t appreciate governments keeping secrets or conducting operations that somehow violate user privacy. So, to register their resentment what they do is attack the agency’s systems and hack critically important data. The same modus operandi […]

Anonymous Leak Data from Japan’ Safari Land-Natural Zoo For Animal Rights

KarmaSec from Anonymous leaked a trove of data from Japanese Prefecture to raise voice against animal cruelty in the country. A group of Anonymous hackers calling itself KarmaSec came up with an interesting Tweet claiming to have breached into the server of Japan’s Yamaguchi Prefecture Tourism Promotion Division (visit-jy.com) and leaked a trove of data protesting in support […]

Pedophiles May Be Using Anonymous’ Symbolic Mask To Trap Children

A Pastebin post claims that pedophiles are using Anonymous’ guy Fawkes mask to trap children online Nowadays, hackers and hacktivists are hell-bent on exposing Pedophiles that are busy scaring the memories of children of all ages with their malicious acts but apparently, cyber activists have identified that sexual predators are using the alibi of Anonymous, the […]

Anonymous Leaks Data of Cincinnati Police Department Officers

The Anon Verdict hacktivists from Anonymous leaked personal information of around 52 Cincinnati Police Department employees on Sunday — Motive: Death of Paul Gaston. The group revealed in a video that it has acquired personal details of dozens of Cincinnati police employees from rank-and-file officers to Chief Issac. The 3-minute long video was posted on […]