DON'T PANIC! Latest Anonymous data dump looks old hat

On the day after Christmas, Anonymous dumped out 13,000 credit card numbers and account details for a host of popular websites, but an analysis of the package by security experts shows that most of the data has been available online for ages. The dump was carried out "for the lulz," according to an Anonymous Twitter account. …

[Doctor Syntax]

On the day after Christmas

Maybe we could have a new carol

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me

A DDoS attack

etc.

[dan1980]

Re: On the day after Christmas

Five botnet rings . . .

[VinceH]

Re: On the day after Christmas

Okay, you asked for it.

Blah blah blah up to the final verse, covering everything, which goes:

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me:

Twelve spammy emails,

Eleven open relays,

Ten data breaches,

Nine DDOSes,

Eight privacy gaffs,

Seven government snoops,

Six bugs in crypto,

Five botnet rings,

Four hack attacks,

Three phish attempts,

Two password dumps,

And some malware for my PC!

[Ole Juul]

Identity conundrum

The real Anonymous or just some anonymous anonymous.

[Matt Bryant]

Re: Ole Juul Re: Identity conundrum

"The real Anonymous or just some anonymous anonymous." Yeah, funny how that 'global non-hierarchical organisation without leaders' turns out to have a very identifiable and consistent core of 'non-leaders' 'not controlling' everything. As is remarked by the expert in the article:

"I'd also question the authenticity of this actually being Anonymous. It doesn't look like something they would do. Usually when they release data it's for a specific purpose, not just for no reason."

Yup, no identifiable leadership in operation there! NOT!

[dan1980]

Okay, I am back on board with the images in stories now.

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh I know, I want put my face right in there, is it chocolate do you think?

[fandom]

Chocolate?!

Oh, wait! There is a cake in the photo

[Anonymous Coward]

"Okay, I am back on board with the images in stories now."

I fully agree. In fact I think *all* stories about any kind of hacking should be attributed initially to Anonymous, at least until we know for sure it isn't.

[Mark 85]

To hell with Anonymous...

Tell us more about the masked lady in the picture.... ok.. I'll go quietly now.

[N2]

Re: To hell with Anonymous...

She like a pearl necklace that's for sure :D

[phil dude]

Re: To hell with Anonymous...

A ZZ-top reference?

P.

[Anonymous Coward]

Well...

...at least it was a timely reminder for me to do my annual after-the-horse-has-bolted change-all-the-passwords exercise.

[Anonymous Coward]

Selectively believing hackers

Both lizard squad and anonymous have been caught making bogus claims and taking credit. Weedy are the press still keen to believe anything they say..

[Cliff]

Re: Selectively believing hackers

Newspapers (or a certain subset of them) create fear to sell papers, but couldn't fact-check in the race for eyeballs or online clicks. This plays directly into that hysteria, so a handful of narcissistic kids get attention for fuckall.

[Anonymous Coward]

Couldn't help

I was NOT looking @ the boobs.

[James O'Shea]

Re: Couldn't help

So.... are you gay, did you have a small accident, or are you simply not a guy?

[Swarthy]

Re: Couldn't help

The first bit doesn't apply, as all the gay men I've known love boobs. I'd go for the "small accident" as my guess.

[zen1]

Re: Couldn't help

Oh I was, and I make no apology for it either. To be honest, that's what brought this story to my attention. I'm off to smoke a cigarette now

[Cliff]

Yummy!

Xenu cake! My favourite :-)

[NozeDive]

Photo

GOOD GOD THAT'S A GREAT PHOTO!

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Photo

You should see the bikini spread she did during one of the protests. ;)

[b 3]

what a lovely pair!

thanks for that 3:)

[Rob 44]

Sigh.

This ladies and gentlemen is why journalism now sucks.

We all know the official/ish accounts of anonymous. If they don't talk about it then assume it's just some idiot operating under the anonymous banner and not an official operation.

Think I'll start doing silly shit and add anonymous to my twitter name to see if I get some headlines.