Hacker Group Anonymous Threatens to Attack Stock Exchange

By Perry Chiaramonte & Jana Winter
Published October 04, 2011
FoxNews.com

A digital flier released by someone claiming to be the hacker group Anonymous in which they ask others to join them this coming monday to hack the NYSE website and remove it from the internet.

The FBI is investigating threats purportedly from the hacking collective that calls itself Anonymous to bring down the New York Stock Exchange on Monday by hacking into its computer system.

Members of the notorious hacker group appear to be threatening to bring the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York to a dangerous new level, sounding a call to “declare war on the New York Stock Exchange" on Monday by “erasing" it from the Internet.

“The FBI is aware of these schemes and threats and is looking into the matter,â€