It has been right at the centre of the controversy surrounding the PSN outage, but now Anonymous has itself become the victim of cyber warfare.

The Financial Times reports that AnonOps.net (which is currently inaccessible) has been defaced with obscenities. In addition, the names and details of some 500 Anonymous members were posted on the site for all to see.

“Maybe this was due to happen," chief security officer for anti-virus firm F-Secure Mikko Hypponen stated. "Anonymous has been surprisingly functional over the last months. It wouldn’t last."

An apology from five Anonymous members referring to themselves as "the 'Old' AnonOps netstaff" briefly appeared, apologising for what it called all the "drama". A user called 'Ryan' was blamed fro the move and his personal details were posted online.

Some security professionals have also admitted to forwarding chat logs and IP address of Anonymous members to the FBI.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/0f21fe98-7b3a-11e0-9b06-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1M1FadHMq

Now all we need are their credit card details.

Interesting. Please explain why, have those people been proven guilty of hacking Sony and getting personal data?

Now I didnt expect that! lol

Fight with the sword die by the sword ;)

*facepalm*

*grins*

Pretty interesting article, but there are a lot of factual inaccuracies along with it. For one, Anon is known for it's professionalism "on the job" so to speak. Having a couple members go rogue and hack into Sony, and then turn on Anon, and every dramatic, high-school-esque event that's followed....well, it just reeks of forgery.

Now, I'm not saying Anon is innocent. Far from that. However, the reality is all the more sinister. Sony in 2005 had DRM on their music CDs. Sony has become this empire of lies and failures and it shows here. Sony most likely hired Anonymous to "hack" into their own servers and leave a silly little note like "Anon wuz here". It would be a big scare and everyone would phreak. Then, they could go offline for a month, saving nearly a bajillion yen, and then come back online with a few new online games simultaneously released and a subscription system following in December fresh on teh heels of "higher security".

See, Sony made a good case about the hackers, and correctly placed it as anon, but the real question is "can we trust a company that created mini-discs". No, we cannot. I only hope this goes to show the rest of you that Sony is ALWAYS wrong, and anytime you hear news of any kind, Sony is usually to blame.

This is very plausible. I only take issue with your assertion that Sony has become an empire of failure when this was always the case.