Anonymous
In late 2010, a group of Anonymous hacktivists fired the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (otherwise known as the hacker group's distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack) at PayPal as part of "Operation Payback." On Thursday, 13 defendants who had been charged with that PayPal attack pleaded guilty in a California federal court.
A hacker has been sentenced to a year in prison for helping to break into the servers of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Cody Kretsinger, a member of the hacker collective LulzSec, pleaded guilty in April of 2012 to one count of conspiracy and one count of unauthorized impairment of a protect computer.
A well-known social media figure, Matthew Keys, has been indicted by the U.S. government for his interactions with the hacker group "Anonymous." He allegedly gave log-in information to some of the hackers to a computer server owned by Tribune Co, which owns the Los Angeles Times.
The hacktivist group Anonymous has struck again, breaking into websites of the Federal Reserve and posting sensitive information about over 4,000 bank executives.
Academics have released over 1,500 copyrighted research articles online, tweeting links to the documents with the hastag #pdftribute.
Hacker collective Anonymous is exercising its right to free speech, it seems.
The hacker collective Anonymous has launched more than 44 million cyberattacks against websites of the Israeli government.
A message purported to be from the hacker group Anonymous claims they foiled an attempt by Karl Rove to rig the presidential election in Ohio.
A group of hackers are claiming to know the identity of the bully said to be responsible for the suicide of Canadian teen Amanda Todd.
Millions of Apple UDIDs compromised last week were not stolen from an FBI agent's laptop but from Blue Toad publishing company, its CEO said.
