Anonymous hacks US Sentencing Commission website for Swartz

Published: 26 January, 2013, 14:51

Hacktivist movement Anonymous has hijacked the US Sentencing Commission website as a personal vendetta to retaliate against the justice system that threatened to imprison web activist Aaron Swartz, who recently committed suicide, for decades.

The website was hacked early Saturday and a message was placed saying that “a line was crossed” when Swartz killed himself two weeks ago.

“Two weeks ago today, Aaron Swartz was killed. Killed because he faced an impossible choice. Killed because he was forced into playing a game he could not win — a twisted and distorted perversion of justice — a game where the only winning move was not to play,” the statement read.

Anonymous now threatens to release secret information that they have reportedly copied from several governments’ computer systems they were able to access.

The hackers also put up their video statement and a list of files named after US Supreme Court justices on the hacked website.

Earlier, Anonymous gained access to MIT’s website and the Department of Justice, DOJ.gov website, using distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to avenge the passing of Swartz.

FULL STORY: http://rt.com/usa/news/anonymous-hack-us-swartz-789/