Annonymous attacking Universal Music,RIAA ,etc

[Quovadis]

"Hackers Anonymous announced this afternoon that they would attack the web sites of Universal Music Group, the RIAA and the U.S. Department Of Justice. As of 6:30PM Thursday, a review of each site showed that the hackers had been successful. The attacks came in response to the government forced takedown of file sharing site Megaupload and the arrest of key executives. (Full story of the indictments here.)

The Motion Picture Association Of America site had also been hacked but appeared restored by early evening.

On their main Twitter acount, the hackers declared: "The Largest Attack Ever by Anonymous - 5,635 People Confirmed Using #LOIC to Bring Down Sites! #Anonymous" and "The Largest Attack Ever by Anonymous - 5,635 People Confirmed Using #LOIC to Bring Down Sites! #Anonymous"."

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Update:

http://justice.gov/ DOWN

http://www.universalmusic.com/ DOWN

Warner Music Group http://www.wmg.com/ DOWN

Hadopi http://www.hadopi.fr/DOWN

Recording Industry Association of America, http://www.riaa.com/ DOWN

Motion Picture Association of America. http://www.mpaa.org/ DOWN

Federal Bureau of Investigation http://www.fbi.gov/ DOWN

[JoeDirt]

DDOS is not hacking. lol @ LOIC

[Quovadis]

Yeah I know , from what I know it consist of overflowing a server with too much demand or something like that(well I think , correct me if I am wrong)

[Strobel]

Update:

http://justice.gov/ DOWN

Federal Bureau of Investigation http://www.fbi.gov/ DOWN

I love when they take down governmental sites. But FBI? That's a nice one from Anonymous.

[Antichrist]

Only 2 out of the 7 are still down. I'm not impressed.

[PiNoY]

Yeah I know , from what I know it consist of overflowing a server with too much demand or something like that(well I think , correct me if I am wrong)

 

Message overflowed. Law of demand and supply? LOL

[Kat0n]

Lol Anonymous = kings of the fake.

I'm surprised they finally succeeded anything

[jaie]

Edit: nvm, I mistook the largest attack ever with the largest attack ever by anonymous

Edited January 20, 2012 by jaie

[KITE]

5 out of 7 are down right now, I think they're doing a great job. Activism without harming people physically, they send a signal that proportions of the net dont want these laws; show their concern.

That this is the largest attack mean that a lot of people are actually worried. Governments really have to take this into account, if they want too or not.

[Spitfire]

Lol Anonymous = kings of the fake.

I'm surprised they finally succeeded anything

 

Yea,correct me if i,m wrong but wasn,t Annonymous the ones who announced that they are gonna destroy Facebook on 5-th November last year?

[Saizou]

Source: xkcd no. 932

 

On topic: I've heard somewhere that bringing Megaupload down reduced overall used internet bandwidth by 4%, does someone know if that's remotely true?

[ajnl]

Yea,correct me if i,m wrong but wasn,t Annonymous the ones who announced that they are gonna destroy Facebook on 5-th November last year?

 

5 of them are down, as far as I can see.

 

[JoeDirt]

Source: xkcd no. 932

 

On topic: I've heard somewhere that bringing Megaupload down reduced overall used internet bandwidth by 4%, does someone know if that's remotely true?

Nope what the Megaupload staff claimed is that they their users accounted for the 4% of the internet traffic.

[Saizou]

That's what I meant, I described it horribly tho. It's probably not true or way overblown as it's coming from MU, but 4% of traffic is just wow.

[Kat0n]

Yea,correct me if i,m wrong but wasn,t Annonymous the ones who announced that they are gonna destroy Facebook on 5-th November last year?

Yeah, and it was big fail (or a big lie?)