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    'Anonymous' takes down sites over immigration law

    'Anonymous' takes down sites over immigration law

    Anonymous: 'Your police have made a terrible mistake'

    Posted: Feb 10, 2012 11:14 AM PST Updated: Feb 10, 2012 1:10 PM PST
    By Matt Quillen

    (RNN) – The so-called "hacktivist" group Anonymous claimed responsibility for the attack on government and law enforcement computers in Alabama on Friday in response to what it called the state's "racist" immigration law.

    A person with the handle of "OpPiggyBank" posted a statement taking credit for hacking the computers. It claimed to have stolen sensitive information belonging to more than 46,000 Alabama residents.

    The information – obtained "because of your police being lazy when it comes to data security" – allegedly included social security numbers, license plate numbers, dates of birth and addresses.

    "This was not our desire, or our goal," the person wrote. "Your police administrators have made a terrible mistake and put the lives of tens of thousands of people in jeopardy."

    The group declared the data would be deleted. But to prove they had gotten the information, the statement showed edited examples from 500 of the names and information.

    "The redacted data attached is unusable, and is only attached to prove our point," it stated. "We again want to assure you we do not intend to use this data, nor will we be saving any of it."

    The hackers claimed they took the information to show how easy it could be stolen, and suggested spending state money on security instead of "the soon to be too big scale prison system."

    The hackers said they believed the immigration law is too politicized and would harm natural-born citizens who were from a different ethnic group.

    "The authorities in the state of Alabama are now able to question people suspected of being in the country illegally and hold them, and officials are able to check the immigration status of students in public schools," the statement read. "We will not idly stand by as this happens."

    [Anonymous takes down DOJ, FBI sites]

    Anonymous is a worldwide group of self-described hackers who have targeted the websites of businesses or organizations.

    The group previously shut down websites for Bank of America, MasterCard, and PayPal because those companies would not process donations to WikiLeaks. In January, it claimed credit for the shutdown of the FBI and Department of Justice sites.

    Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley signed the illegal immigrant enforcement bill in June 2011. It has been called the nation's toughest immigration legislation.

    The DOJ and multiple groups filed challenges to the controversial law.

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    Group claims to have hacked Alabama government sites

    Birmingham Business Journal
    Date: Friday, February 10, 2012, 1:36pm CST

    The group of hackers known as "Anonymous" claims to have breached government websites in Alabama and acquired personal information on 46,000 Alabama citizens.

    According to a release posted online, the group said it targeted the state's police and government servers because of Alabama's controversial immigration law.

    The group said it was able to acquire full names, Social Security numbers, license plate numbers and other information on thousands of Alabamians. Its release included redacted information on several of those individuals to prove that the system had been breached.

    "We mean no harm by releasing this redacted information. This data was not securely segregated from the Internet, nor was it properly encrypted," a statement on the site read. "This is what happens when not enough resources are spent on proper design and the training that comes with it."

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    Internet group Anonymous claims to hack Mobile Police Department Web site

    Published: Friday, February 10, 2012, 3:06 PM
    By O.T. Beverly

    Internet hacker group Anonymous claims to have hacked the Mobile Police Department Web site in retaliation for what it considers to be Alabama's too-harsh immigration law.

    MOBILE, Alabama -- Internet hacker and political activists Anonymous claim in a post on pastebay.net to have hacked the Mobile Police Department Web site in retaliation for the state's harsh immigration laws.

    “We at the Cabin have been monitoring your recent racist legislation in an attempt to punish immigrants as criminals,” the post says. “The authorities in the state of Alabama are now able to question people suspected of being in the country illegally and hold them, and officials are able to check the immigration status of students in public schools. We will not idly stand by as this happens.”

    The post includes 4 names and email addresses and a long list of traffic offenses for which the names appear to be redacted.

    The group assures its audience that it has no plans to use the information it gains for malicious purposes and has only hacked the site to prove a point.

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    'CIA Tango Down': Anonymous claims attacks on CIA, Alabama state sites

    By M. Alex Johnson
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    Updated at 6 p.m. ET: cia.gov remains inaccessible, about three hours after it was first reported to be down. Meanwhile, the Alabama Department of Homeland Security says any "comment would be premature at this time" because it was an "ongoing investigation," The Birmingham News reports.

    Updated at 5:28 p.m. ET: Jennifer Youngblood, a spokeswoman for the CIA, tells CNN the agency is "looking into these reports."

    Original post: The hacker group Anonymous, or elements claiming to be part of it, claimed it launched an ambitious set of attacks Friday, saying it had taken down the CIA's website and had harvested the personal information of 46,000 people in Alabama.

    Neither claim could immediately be confirmed, but the CIA's site remained unavailable late Friday afternoon.

    An Anonymous member tweeted CIA TANGO DOWN, using a military expression for the killing of an important target:

    Gizmodo quoted a member of Anonymous as saying the CIA was under a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, by a group of anti-pedophile hackers.
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    The CIA had no immediate comment. The length of the site's disappearance suggests either an unusually extensive DDoS assault or a different form attack that could have infiltrated the agency's servers directly. That would mark a notable advance in the ability of Anonymous or hackers claiming to be affiliated with it to penetrate cyberdefenses.

    In a further indication that the group could be stepping up its generally anti-bureaucracy, pro-open-Internet approach, Anonymous separately claimed responsibility for an attack on Alabama government servers, saying it had harvested the personal information — including dates of birth, Social Security numbers and criminal records — for 46,000 state residents.

    In an Internet post that msnbc.com is not linking to, the Anonymous operative said the attack was launched in opposition to "recent racist legislation in an attempt to punish immigrants as criminals."

    That appears to be a reference to a law Gov. Robert Bentley signed in June that has been called the nation's toughest immigration legislation. The posting linked to an msnbc.com story from September in which state officials promised to fully enforce the new law.

    The post said the personal data would be deleted. But it did publish edited samples from 500 residents as proof of its claim — something Anonymous isn't known to have done before when the information involved private individuals, rather than government or police officials.

    The attack resembles one that Anonymous claimed Tuesday night, when the Salt Lake City, Utah, police website went down under a DDoS campaign. A purported Anonymous member told NBC station KSL that that attack harvested phone numbers, addresses and email addresses of police officers and officials, as well as information on drug operations, suppliers, license plate numbers and more.

    That attack came a day after yet another similar attack on a website for the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association. The same Anonymous group that claimed Friday's CIA attack — calling itself CabinCr3w — claimed responsibility harvesting the personal information of more than 150 police officers.

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    Anonymous invites CIA, others to its weekend party

    by Edward Moyer | February 11, 2012 2:17 PM PST

    Anonymous is having a busy weekend.

    The loose-knit hacking collective, which last week scored a coup against the FBI, claimed yesterday to have taken down the CIA's Web site, in what appeared to be a Distributed Denial of Service attack (one of the group's specialties, such relatively unsophisticated attacks paralyze Web servers with waves of data requests).

    The group also posted information it said was pilfered from police and government servers in Alabama, and, as blog RT reported, took down the Mexican Senate and Interior Ministry Web sites. It also said it had exposed e-mail addresses from the Mexican Mining Chamber, aka "Camimex."

    Contacted by CNN last night, a CIA representative would say only, "We are aware of the problems accessing our Web site, and are working to resolve them." The site was back online Saturday.

    In a Pastebin document posted Friday, Anonymous addressed the citizens of Alabama and said that "because of your police being lazy when it comes to data security," operatives for the group had managed to lift information on 46,000 Alabama residents, including their names, Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, criminal records, and license plate numbers.

    The group said its efforts were in protest of Alabama's House Bill 56, controversial immigration legislation that became law in the state last year. But the individuals responsible for the Pastebin post seemed to be aware that Anonymous' past leaking of personal information may not always have served its reputation and causes very well.

    The document included heavily censored information on 500 people and said all of the stolen data had ultimately been erased.

    "Attached to this press release are redacted versions of a VERY SMALL amount of data that we have actually acquired,..." the post reads. "This release is only meant to show the Citizens of the state of Alabama the amount of incompetence that is taking place within the state government.... We mean no harm by releasing this redacted information. This data was not securely segregated from the Internet, nor was it properly encrypted."

    Meanwhile, the Mexico-related attacks were in response to, on the one hand, alleged exploitative labor conditions and business practices at Camimex, and on the other, according to RT, a proposed law that some are calling the Mexican version of the Stop Online Piracy Act, the outcry-inducing antipiracy proposal that recently grabbed headlines in the U.S. The Mexican proposal, RT reported, would allow for fines of 1 million pesos (more than $100,000) against online pirates.

    RT reported that Mexico's Interior Secretary, Alejandro Poire, said during a news conference that the Interior Minisry's Web site had been blocked for less than five minutes Friday morning, that no data was compromised, and that officials were investigating.

    Anonymous embarrassed the FBI a week ago Friday by posting on YouTube a recording of a conference call between the bureau and U.K. law enforcement over Anonymous and other online activist groups.

    The group makes a habit of targeting law enforcement and related agencies on Fridays. The same day as the FBI post, Anonymous claimed to have hacked into police sites in Texas, Boston, and Salt Lake City, as well as the site of defense lawyers for a U.S. Marine accused of leading a civilian massacre in Iraq. (This hacker chart lists much of Anonymous' activity since last year.)

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