Anonymous Establish Snitch Sites

Online activist group Anonymous have been a lot in the news lately, most recently for their teaming up with hacker group LulzSec and posting sensitive data about various governments and other high profile targets. Now, a subgroup of Anonymous has started two ‘leak’ websites which contain sensitive data from governments and corporations. These groups are localleaks.tk and hackerleaks.tk.

Hackers helping hackers!

According to a report, the Local Leaks website contains information pertaining to corruption and wrongdoings such as police brutality, work place harassment, etc. at a local level. Users can submit information anonymously and the site states that their first priority is to provide a safe, secure and anonymous way for local government or corporate employees to disclose sensitive information.

The Hacker Leaks website is a place where hackers can disclose sensitive data they obtain. The site states "Hackers helping hackers to leak material of interest. You download it; we’ll disclose it for you.” The site received its first submission which was a list of personal information of Orlando, Florida officials. Anonymous have targeted several Orlando sites in protest of the arrests of members of the group Food not Bombs.

Commander X, Editor-in-Chief of the sites claims that they don’t obtain the material and that they merely publish it. Thereby further stating the fact that these websites do not violate any law.

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Hackathon
After the Sony PlayStation Network was hacked, hacker group LulzSec and Anonymous have literally wrecked havoc on the Internet. What may be the hacking coalition of the year, Anonymous and LulzSec together announced the forming of AntiSec. These two 'organizations' have forged what some companies would term an 'unholy-alliance' .

Along with Anonymous and LulzSec many other groups are also attacking and disrupting Internet sites. These hacker groups are mainly targeting the sites for fun using Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. They claim that this form of attack are their most abundant but most mild.