The group, which recently breached the site of think tank Strategic
Forecasting Inc, crippled at least 15 websites and exposed hundreds of
names
Computer hackers from the Anonymous 'hacktivist' group have attacked
German neo-Nazi groups, crippling a reported 15 websites, and exposing
the names of hundreds of extreme right-wing supporters, reports The
Daily Mail.
A Tweet sent to everyone trying to log onto one Nazi website said: 'We wish all Nazis a good start to the New Year.'
They have been joined by hackers in Spain, who posted a list of 1,000 alleged customers from a far-right shop.
Anonymous's
leaks site is called 'NaziLeaks'. Information on the operation – dubbed
Operation Blitzkrieg – is circulating on Twitter tagged 'OpBlitzkrieg'
and 'NaziLeaks'.
At present the Nazi-Leaks website says that its account has been suspended.
As
usual with Anonymous's more public attacks, such as their Operation
Darknet attack on paedophiles, information has been 'mirrored' on other sites to make it harder for 'victims' to get rid of.
In
Germany, the Nazi-Leaks website listed the names and personal details
of people who Anonymous claims are account customers at far-right shops
as well as contributors to the country's Junge Freiheit newspaper, which
specialises in extreme right wing rants.
It's not the first
high-profile hacker attack on German far right supporters - an attack in
May 2011 targeted many of the same sites as 'Operation Blitzkrieg'.
Some
of the information released in this attack appears to date from earlier
hacker attacks on far right sites. The attack claims to have shut down
15 websites linked to Germany's neo-Nazi National Democratic Party,
including one far right platform called Altermedia.
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