Anonymous steals data from world governments

Hacktivist group Anonymous on Tuesday (Manila time) dumped onto the Web data that it claims was taken from the government servers of several countries. The group indicated this was part of its AntiSec operation, a move to steal data from governments it did not agree with. In a message on its Twitter account, Anonymous claimed to dump data from "Anguilla, Brazil, Zimbabwe and Australian Government Servers." Anonymous said it started with the userbase of Zimbabwe, which it said was "rather small." But the group even hinted at exploiting a "wild leak" in Australia. An article on ZeroPaid said that the content —which was uploaded in batches— included data from the government servers of Anguilla, Brazil, Zimbabwe, and "vaguely content from Australia." The AntiSec operation appeared to continue even after Anonymous' partner, Lulz Security (LulzSec), claimed last weekend to stop its operations after 50 days. Anonymous releases identities of Columbian Black Eagles; targets Israel parliament Earlier, Anonymous continued its crusade against what it claimed to be abusive governments, releasing Tuesday the identities of 2,800 Columbian "Black Eagles" Special Police Unit members. The group also bared plans to mount a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Israel's Parliament. AnonOps Communications revealed that Anonymous posted the names of 2,800 members of the "right-wing Columbian Black Eagles" Special Police Unit's members online. "The Black Eagles, or Aguilas Negras as the group is known in its native Columbia, are collection of fragmented right wing, counter-revolutionary, paramilitary cells, thought to have been born from the paramilitary Self-Defense Units of Colombia (AUC)," it said in its blog post. AnonOps' blog entry provided a shortened URL supposedly leading to a list of 2,800 officers from the Peruvian Águilas Negras (Black Eagles Special Police Unit). However, visitors to the site as of Tuesday afternoon who tried to click on the shortened URL would receive a warning that there "might be a problem with the requested link." AnonOps said that the AUC faction that the group originated from was "an umbrella organization of death squads designed to combat the Columbia's leftist guerrilla fighters and generate income through drug trafficking." It said the Black Eagles group is "infamous for its involvement in numerous massacres and mass displacements across Columbia. As well as drug trafficking, certain cells have been linked to kidnapping, extortion and racketeering." The release of the information was credited as being a part of Anonymous' and the supposedly defunct LulzSec's ongoing Operation Anti-Security. Meanwhile, AnonOps said Anonymous is targeting the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset (http://knesset.gov.il/). "While Israel has allegedly been happy to dispense hack attacks in the past, the onslaught on the Iranian nuclear power plant courtesy of the Stuxnet virus coming to mind, we doubt it will as happy to be seen on the receiving end of decentralized computer warfare. Either way, with the world focusing on Greece tomorrow, this development, and specifically what form of retaliation Israel adopts, will be yet another important factor to keep track of over the next 24 hours," it said. — TJD, GMA News