The notorious hacking group going by the moniker Anonymous has fired back at the US Department of Justice as well as Universal Records for the indictment and subsequent takedown of MegaUpload.com and its founder Kim Dotcom. Anonymous took down both entities websites as a direct retaliation for the events that took place earlier today.
Barret Brown, a spokesperson for Anonymous has confirmed that the move was retaliatory, and warns that more actions are coming in the form of attacks on supports of SOPA. Both sites went down just hours after the move by the feds to shutdown MegaUpload’s servers located in Virginia. These actions will certainly fuel speculations about MegaUpload being impacted by the global demonstrations against SOPA held yesterday.
Anonymous considers its members to be “hacktivists” using the internet to protest things the group believes are wrong. Past actions of the group have involved attacks on child-porn sites, as well as exposing high-profile people who maintained memberships with them. More on this story as it breaks.
Update: It seems like the RIAA site, riaa.com, is down as well.
Update 2: MPAA’s site, mpaa.org seems to be offline as well.
Source : http://www.geek.com/articles/news/anonymous-strikes-back-by-taking-down-doj-universal-records-20120119/