Anonymous hacks Symantec & PayPal, begins November 5 hacking spree

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As it becomes the 5th of November around the world, Anonymous announced a hacking spree that has claimed many websites and a few databases - plus a planned V For Vendetta reenactment at the Houses of Parliament.

The press arm for Anonymous has announced that it has begun its hacking spree for the 5th of November - Guy Fawkes Day.

Claims are circulating that hackers - some affilaited with Anonymous, and some not - have dumped user and employee account information on accounts from PayPal, Symantec, the defacement of Saturday Night Live's website, Australian government websites and much more.

CLARIFICATION: Claim for Symantec goes to @Doxbin, and they have stated that "HTP is not affiliated with Anonymous."

UPDATE Nov. 4, 10:20 PM PST: Anonymous has claimed a document dump on The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) "the world's largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization."

UPDATE Nov. 5, 12:20 AM PST: Reagrding Anonymous' post of docs and statement it hacked PayPal, PayPal's head of PR has tweeted that there is "no evidence to validate this claim." Yet at the time of this writing Anonymous Australia posted this URL to a PrivatePaste page - linking to five pages of data on an estimated 27,935 PayPal accounts. Within the past few hours that PrivatePaste page has since been removed.

UPDATE Nov. 5, 11:38 AM PST: PayPal has responded to request for comment and Anuj Nayar (PayPal's Senior Director of Communications) tells me via email, "It appears that the exploit was not directed at PayPal after all, it was directed at a company called ZPanel. The original story that started this and was retweeted by some of the Anonymous Twitter handles has now been updated." PayPal sent me this link to Cyberwars' newly updated post (the primary post information originated from).

Monday's main focus seems to be an anti-suveillance protest - like with the recent Anonymous October 20 protest - with November 5th intent aimed at surveillance systems such as TrapWire and INDECT.

Trapwire and INDECT's opponents believe that the surveillance systems to be direct threats to privacy and certain civil freedoms and that their implementation could constitute human rights violations.

According to the various Anonymous Twitter accounts announcing the hacks and linking to document dumps, this is just the beginning of doc dumps and defacements for its day of protest. News of the protest is being shared on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Pastebin.

Australian Government qla.org.au Hacked by Anonymous for Nov 5th— Anonymous Australia (@AuAnon) November 5, 2012

The hacktivists have also included in its Nov. 5th announcements tonight the hacking and defacement of Australian government sites, ImageShack and PayPal (claiming a zero day exploit), Ascension Australia, NBC.com and Lady Gaga's fan site (claimed for the spree by "Pyknic"), Saturday Night Live's website, the Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno portals, Australian steel and mining company Arcelor Mittal, homewares website GiftNow, the Greek City website, the Ghana Consulate website, and claim to have leaked VMware ESX Server Kernel source code via twitter today.

UPDATE Nov. 4 10:20 PST: Anonymous has claimed a document dump on The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) "the world's largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization."

Anonymous Australia seems to be the most active at this time.

At the same time, the press arm for Anonymous has announced - via a press release on Pastebin - that it is rallying the public for an in-person V For Vendetta protest at The Houses of Parliament, at 8PM in London.

Protesters in Canada will get a rude surprise if they don Guy Fawkes masks - because last week Canada's House of Commons approved a bill that bans people from hiding their faces during riots.

We're watching and following the developments as they happen.

And right now they're happening fast - and furiously.

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They don't have any reason to make paypal accounts public from people they don't even know, what's the point of that... But as everyone is using the name of Anonymous you can't expect anything else.

[The Godfather]

My friends are Brilliant!!

[emerglines]

just CIA haha cause i know some friends can kisk ass of The CIA but they don't because it will turn political issue not as the try to plan :) so its just CIA tricks to make people moves and then the police and the army will do martial low :)

[DKT27]

just CIA haha cause i know some friends can kisk ass of The CIA but they don't because it will turn political issue not as the try to plan :) so its just CIA tricks to make people moves and then the police and the army will do martial low :)

You should look at Anonymous' history and how they work. They have f*cked both FBI and CIA several times. Anonymous, throughout the years, has become a really big force itself, it needs no CIA, it's all done in open.

Anonymous, is one of the reason why we get atleast some freedom.

[emerglines]

just CIA haha cause i know some friends can kisk ass of The CIA but they don't because it will turn political issue not as the try to plan :) so its just CIA tricks to make people moves and then the police and the army will do martial low :)

You should look at Anonymous' history and how they work. They have f*cked both FBI and CIA several times. Anonymous, throughout the years, has become a really big force itself, it needs no CIA, it's all done in open.

Anonymous, is one of the reason why we get atleast some freedom.

I got connection and im 100% sure of what im saying , All what you see is a trick made by the CIA and The Mossad and The Mi6 and many more intellegency sh** , A friend of my has check how they work and he find that some users from anonymous whom they pretend to be from th public (poor and middle class people ) are just CIA agents Cause Visa company for exemple was informed 7 days before the attack and had made a backup 3 days before . Even wikileaks owner had old connections if you trust that the USA send a man to land on the moon than you will trust this big lie cause if anonymous group was made by real veteran and revolutionary people they will raise hell over USA gov like what the Mossad and some USA companys had made to arabic countrys . i wouldn't explain more cause its a public forum and may i be in jail now :)

Read whats behind the lines just don't trust no one cause if you do then be a slave of your gov cause the next power of this world would be Israel that ownes 80% and more of gold that the FED protects even if that USA gov dosen't own ...

[emerglines]

By the way its a trick they name it Sacrifice , "I give you what you want , and i take all what i want " ...

[Sliuown]

Anonymous, just hacked Cpr.dk in Denmark some days ago.

[liverpal]

they are amazing! Anonymous.....!!