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Anonymous hackers post personal info for 4,000 bank execs online

2/4/2013

Anonymous strikes again, less than a week after defacing two websites as part of the hacktivist group's ongoing Operation Last Resort. The ever-busy collective's latest target? More than 4,000 bank executives. On Sunday, Anonymous hackers posted the execs' phone numbers, computer logins and other personal details on a government website (Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center) as part of their revenge for computer crime laws that they believe might have contributed to the recent suicide of Internet guru Aaron Swartz, who helped found Reddit. Swartz had been open about his battle with depression, but he had also been indicted for allegedly mass-downloading academic articles from JSTOR in 2011 and was facing prison time if convicted . [Source]

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