Hackers Take Over Sentencing Commission Website

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Hackers Take Over Sentencing Commission Website

Postby harry ashburn » Sat Jan 26, 2013 4:41 pm

Hackers Take Over Sentencing Commission Website

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: January 26, 2013 at 12:10 PM ET


WASHINGTON (AP) — The hacker-activist group Anonymous says it hijacked the website of the U.S. Sentencing Commission to avenge the death of Aaron Swartz, an Internet activist who committed suicide. The FBI is investigating.

The website of the commission, an independent agency of the judicial branch, was taken over early Saturday and replaced with a message warning that when Swartz killed himself two weeks ago "a line was crossed."

The hackers say they've infiltrated several government computer systems and copied secret information that they now threaten to make public.

Family and friends of Swartz, who helped create Reddit and RSS, say he killed himself after he was hounded by federal prosecutors. Officials say he helped post millions of court documents for free online and that he illegally downloaded millions of academic articles from an online clearinghouse.

The FBI's Richard McFeely, executive assistant director of the Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch, said in a statement that "we were aware as soon as it happened and are handling it as a criminal investigation. We are always concerned when someone illegally accesses another person's or government agency's network."
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Postby harry ashburn » Sat Jan 26, 2013 5:10 pm

Anonymous Hacks Gov Site, posts video- Claims to have armed "cyber" nuclear warheads
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread921418/pg1
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