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    Hackers strike at 70 US law enforcement websites

    AP – Sat, Aug 6, 2011

    LONDON (AP) — The group known as Anonymous said Saturday it has hacked some 70 law enforcement websites across the southern and central United States in retaliation for the arrests of its sympathizers in the U.S. and Britain.

    The group also claimed to have stolen 10 gigabytes of data, including emails, credit card details, and other information from local law enforcement bodies.

    "We are releasing a massive amount of confidential information that is sure to embarrass, discredit and incriminate police officers across the U.S.," the group said in a statement, adding that it hoped the leak would "demonstrate the inherently corrupt nature of law enforcement using their own words" and "disrupt and sabotage their ability to communicate and terrorize communities."

    Anonymous' claims couldn't all be immediately verified, but a review of the sites it claims to have targeted — mainly sheriffs" offices in states such as Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Mississippi — showed that most were unavailable or had been wiped clean of content.

    Most of the half dozen calls to various sheriff's offices across the country went unanswered or weren't returned Saturday, but at least one sheriff confirmed that law enforcement bodies had been hacked.

    In the state of Arkansas, St. Francis County Sheriff Bobby May said his department and several others were targeted in retaliation for the arrest of hackers who had targeted Apple Computer Inc., among other companies.

    "It's an international group who are hacking into law enforcement websites across the nation is my understanding," May told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

    May said the FBI was investigating the attacks.

     

    150 comments

    • Charles
      Charles  •  9 mths ago
      Right! Because a corrupt government who is bankrupt and continues to excessively tax its people so it can give trillions in corporate welfare to Fortune 500 billionaires and spends trillions more getting our soldiers killed trying to play the global "super cop" in multiple countries that hate us while we borrow money from nations like China who despise us and sell our grandchildren into debt slavery – well, that’s not menacing. Oh no. But a few harmless computer nerds who may be the only entity on earth that is not brainwashed, controlled and subservient to this mindless machine, they are public enemy number one for hacking a few websites? I find that hard to believe. America, you’re being played like a fiddle. Snap out of it. These hackers might be the free internet’s last stand. Governments and economies are failing and like a street hustler playing cups and balls they distract us. Classic misdirection the government hopes will steer the public’s attention away from their incompetence.
      • MIZZ R
        MIZZ R 9 mths ago
        except for half the population that pays no income taxes...lets be fair your statement should say for the half of the population they over tax...and the half that they do not...
      • spam y
        spam y 9 mths ago
        yuk,and alot of cops are vets.Lazy heathens.
      • spam y
        spam y 9 mths ago
        except me I am probably more lazy.
    • Tim
      Tim  •  9 mths ago
      Anonymous, PLEASE, hack Congress, the House and Senate, and ALL the state's governors...
      then, when we REALLY know what's going on, heads will roll and things will change.
      Keep up the good work Anonymous!

      P.S. The war on pot is welfare for otherwise unemployed LEOs (law enforcement officials).
      Release the potheads from prison and use the empty prisons as homeless shelters,
      vocational education centers and/or food distribution centers for the poor and disadvantaged.
      • spam y
        spam y 9 mths ago
        and you might want to move our social security accounts to a safe haven before our govt defaults.
      • MassDeception
        MassDeception 9 mths ago
        Translation: The Government is going to regulate the crap out of the Internet.
        That's what it is all about folks. If they don't like you.... or your message, then shut you down. Hackers are Government fronts to allow them to pass regulation ..Big Brother Regulation. Real Hacks, don't do what this article states.
    • Charles
      Charles  •  9 mths ago
      Remember: the jack-booted thugs who call themselves our government are the ones who brought us the “Patriot Act” of 2001 that eviscerated our 4th Amendment rights and the “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007” (HR 1955 and 1959 - otherwise known as the “thought crimes” bill) which annihilated our 1st Amendment rights. They also unsuccessfully attempted to do away with Net Neutrality and lock down the internet to a few government and private corporate interests. So let me get this straight, you want us to believe that a small band of nerds are the real threat to humanity’s survival and well-being rather than the organized mafia crime ring known as “government” who has done so much to obliterate the freedoms we used to have under the US Constitution? That’s absolutely laughable.
    • ZachT
      ZachT  •  9 mths ago
      Sad how the people who reveal our law enforcement officers' wrongdoing, are labeled lawbreakers.
    • Richard
      Richard  •  9 mths ago
      My praises to Anonymous for doing what our founding fathers would have wanted us to do. To take matters into our own hands when the government becomes an enemy of the people!
    • primetime
      primetime  •  9 mths ago
      Your information is NOT SAFE
    • A Yahoo! User  •  9 mths ago
      The days of Good cops doing true police work are long gone.
      Its all bullies and a SHOW hung up in power for dollars. Pawns..
    • A Yahoo! User  •  9 mths ago
      PLEASE HACK THE FED AND ERASE OUR DEBT. You would be heros
    • Robert
      Robert  •  9 mths ago
      Technology is a great advancement, however in the last 10 years we have not protected oursevles first. The corrupt will reap what they sow.
    • melee401
      melee401  •  9 mths ago
      Someone's got to do this, I applaud anyone who exposes corruption no matter where it is found.
    • truth hurts
      truth hurts  •  9 mths ago
      The real criminals are the district attorneys and their corrupt judges, who always side`s with the law enforcement, who in return live off your money all day everyday. these people are the real thugs, they cover the eyes of the lady justice so they can steal and rob people, while she is blind folded.
      • Charles
        Charles 9 mths ago
        There weren't any hackers around when Rome fell. It was overextension of the empire and government corruption. Rome couldn't even afford to pay her soldiers. The empire began to crumble. Sound familiar? Recently America has found itself in this predicament. The downfall of Western civilization is not the presence of a few harmless computer nerds, rather it is society's massive apathy and tolerance of corrupt government that exploits and oppresses its people and consistently abuses its authority and office. For a country that was founded on rebellion against authority and taxation without representation and bravely fought against King George America has become surprisingly subservient, spineless and unquestioning of its new King George (Congress) that also taxes it without truly representing it.
      • Lee
        Lee 9 mths ago
        As a lawyer of 25 years I can tell you it would take weeks to describe just how totally corrupt, up and down, that our system is, it's a vomitorium.
    • YOURDUMB
      YOURDUMB  •  9 mths ago
      Good! Expose them all!!

      The majority of U.S. anything is corrupt and rancid to the core (specifically the government (congress/supreme court) - law enforcement - and ALL our corporations)
    • Ed
      Ed  •  9 mths ago
      if any hacker was worth their weight they would erase all debt incurred by the american working class from the banks that we baild out to the tune of trillions of our tax dollars.
      • guillotinetheelites
        guillotinetheelites 9 mths ago
        best post ive read all day!
      • D.J.
        D.J. 9 mths ago
        who knows? they might just be working up to that.
      • golly
        golly 9 mths ago
        LOL the consequences will supprise you. I guess you have no job. You must not have a bank account. Do the people that pay you use a bank or do you get paid cash? and where are you going to get your groceries? All stores use banks and credit cards. And guess how the internet generates income . Im talking about advertisers that help keep this thing running. If they can no longer trust the information on here, the net goes down. then ahckers will have no voice and no money.
    • Homer J
      Homer J  •  9 mths ago
      Nobody's right if everybody's wrong.
    • BushLizard2U
      BushLizard2U  •  9 mths ago
      Where's NATO ??? They should be bombing these Nazi headquarters in support of the People's Rebels.
    • Freedom is Slavery
      Freedom is Slavery  •  9 mths ago
      Anything that exposes corrupt police I will applaude.
      • shelly
        shelly 9 mths ago
        Someone needs to hack them and expose them for criminal activities they are doing.
      • ZachT
        ZachT 9 mths ago
        4 police officers downvoted this post LOL
    • A
      A  •  9 mths ago
      FBI is monitoring this page
    • Ross
      Ross  •  9 mths ago
      Woot! Kudos! Keep them on their toes and show them they cant hide their atrocities! Viva Le Anonymous !
    • Ralkier
      Ralkier  •  9 mths ago
      Cool good job hackers! because this is same crap the pentagon and DHS has Illegally been Doing with the Illegal Forced in Patriot Act! Every one needs to Share
      "The Official Watch List of Corruption" that Exposes Our Corrupt Government/Cops/ Banks on your Facebook and Twitter" Run a Search in yahoo for "The Official Watch List of Corruption" or go to CorruptionWatchList .Org
      sites like this has pentagon and other government so nervous they are meeting with computer scientist to try to dampen down this information because they are all criminals who should be in prison! SHARE THIS SITE EXPOSE THESE PARASITES!!!!
    • Black Out
      Black Out  •  9 mths ago
      Wait a second it says that they stole credit card details. Who's exactly? the actual police's or the citizens that have ever paid a fine, ticket, ect.???
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