Anonymous Hacks Finland 129
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First time accepted submitter spuguli writes with more exploits of Anonymous. "From Helsingin Sanomat: 'A data leak was uncovered in Finland on Saturday, in which personal details ... of around 16,000 people were uploaded onto a file-sharing website.' Anonymous has claimed responsibility for the cracking of several databases."
The main story is... (Score:4, Informative)
The National Bureau of Investigation published a slightly obfuscated list of the 16,000 victims, which brought down their website. They had 60,000 simultaneous connection attempts to the site. The question is how would the officials communicate with the public if it were a real national disaster.
Anonymous Finland denies the hack (Score:5, Informative)
"Hello,
This is Anonymous Finland messaging you once again (actually not, the earlier messages were not written nor released by us.)
We have no opinions on any politicians all.
We have not hacked any Finnish websites.
We find antisec childish, among with lulzsec that was nothing but a bunch of bought exploits."
http://pastebin.com/X98zQ4Ea [pastebin.com]
Re:It is probably a hoax (Score:3, Informative)
Finnish newspaper Iltalehti [iltalehti.fi] (in Finnish) is now reporting that the attempt by some members of Anonymous to claim the leak is a hoax. Actually, the person or group claiming responsibility did probably do neither of the leaks. The "new" leak was actually published already three weeks ago, and someone just copied that leak and tried to gain news coverage for his political ends.
Re:Guess Anon (Score:4, Informative)
At least before "Anonymous" hacked evil companies or countries. Now some idiot is just pushing his own political agenda.
Re:Anonymous Finland denies the hack (Score:3, Informative)