Anonymous
launched a massive cyber attack against U.S. government and
anti-piracy websites yesterday in response to the shut down of one of
the world's biggest file-sharing services.
Megaupload.com
was taken offline by U.S. authorities and its founder and several
company executives were arrested on charges of violating privacy
laws.
Revenge
attacks targeted sites for anti-piracy organisations RIAA and MPAA
(America's Recording Industry Association and Motion Picture
Association), record label Universal Music, and the Department of
Justice.
The
sites were all disabled for some time yesterday.
There
were reports that an Anonymous-affiliated Twitter account had boasted
of the success of the attacks, but the profile had been removed by
the time MailOnline checked today.
A
statement posted on document sharing site Pastebin.com purportedly by
Anonymous yesterday said: 'We Anonymous are launching our largest
attack ever on government and music industry sites. Lulz.
'The
FBI didn't think they would get away with this did they? They
should have expected us.'
