Feb 4 - Anonymous says it will leak giant cache of Iraq war e-mails

Anonymous has struck — and struck again.
A member of the loosely organized hacker group Anonymous in Paris in January. Anonymous members often wear Guy Fawkes masks. (Fred Dufour - AFP/Getty Images)
Early Friday, the FBI said that hackers from the well-known collective had intercepted and released a confidential conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard.

A few hours later, Anonymous announced that it would release a massive archive of e-mails concerning the 2005 [rip]s of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians during a U.S. raid in the town of Haditha.

The announcement states that Anonymous stole 2.6 gigabytes of e-mail belonging to Puckett Faraj, a law firm that represents Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, who is accused of leading the group of Marines in Haditha. The Web site of Puckett Faraj is not currently loading, and Gawker is reporting that the site was hacked.

A spokeswoman for Puckett Faraj confirmed that the Web site was down but said that she could not confirm or deny whether the site had been hacked.

Wuterich last month struck a plea deal in which he will not go to prison, but will be demoted to private.

Anonymous also said the e-mails contain “detailed records, transcripts, testimony, trial evidence, and legal defense donation records” about the Haditha Case. The e-mails will allegedly be posted to Pirate Bay, a Swedish bittorrent site, soon.

Anonymous has been on a hacking spree over the last week, taking down the Web site of Brazil’s largest bank Tuesday, and posting a protest against austerity policies on Greece’s justice ministry Web site Friday.

Early Friday, Anonymous released 15 minutes of a call that portrayed government investigators as bumbling. While waiting for other investigators to join, a member of Scotland Yard jokes with an FBI agent about McDonald’s, nightclubs and Sheffield, England, which he says is “not exactly a jewel in England’s crown.”

After about four minutes, the cyber-crime investigators start talking about how to track and prosecute members of Anonymous. “Who are his little group of friends?” muses a Scotland Yard investigator about one Anonymous member, adding, “Whether they are online friends or three-dimensional friends, I’m not sure.” Listen to the call below:
The FBI said in a statement Friday that the call “was intended for law enforcement officers only and was illegally obtained.” The bureau also said it was searching for those responsible.

On Thursday, the hacktivist group orchestrated its biggest attack to date — temporarily blocking access to the Web sites of the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, the Copyright Office, the Motion Picture[..]ociation, the Recording Industry[..]ociation and several other sites. The attack was payback for DOJ's closing of Megaupload, a content site that shared pirated material.

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it would be cool if they could get me all my cod footage even the games i can find in the theatre somejow

People call em script kiddies

They wire tapped the FBI

[smiley]

All this is going to accomplish is the examples for the government to use for then to stake there right to control the Internet even more. They bored with terrorist now it's going to create terrisom on the Internet.

what if "anonymous" was all just a scam so the government could control the internet

HIGHLY likely, at least to some extent

this shall be interesting.

But they didn't. They just got access to an email that had the phone-number and code for the conference call. Still brazen though...

The scam is the government acting like they don't know what they're planning or who "they" are. I know someone who has worked for the NSA that says basically since the internet "blew up" in the late 90s the government has been able to see it all. They're not as anonymous as they think. Anonymous thinks they're "fighting the good fight" but realistically they're just giving the government a reason to censor the net..

uh....read that again slowly and you will GET IT...