Anonymous (internet groups)

Officials say the city's website was hacked today, though users were able to access most online services. Federal authorities and Chicago police are investigating the attack, according to a source familiar with the incident. Authorities are also...

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is seeking political asylum from Ecuador, less than a week after the British Supreme Court ruled he could be extradited to Sweden over allegations of sexual assault....

A federal grand jury has indicted an English citizen -- and member of the global hacking group "LulzSec"-- on multiple counts of computer-related crimes for alleged computer attacks targeting PBS, Sony Pictures and Fox, including an effort to get...

The hacktivist group Anonymous released a nearly 17-minute recording on Friday of a phone call between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Scotland Yard pertaining to Anonymous and fellow hacker groups LulzSec and AntiSec. The FBI confirmed to the...

Six top computer hackers associated with groups such as Anonymous, LulzSec and AntiSec have been arrested and charged in New York in connection with a series of attacks from 2008-2011, including illegally obtaining information on FOX40.com users. The six...

WASHINGTON, DC -- Websites affiliated with the CIA, Mexico's mining ministry and the state of Alabama were down Friday, allegedly done in by hackers, government officials and a well-known hacking group reported. A message Friday on a Twitter page and...

Have people been saying really mean things about you on Twitter? Probably not, but that's the direct message being used by the Hacker group Anonymous to steal the user names and passwords of thousands of users, according to reports. The attack...

Who hates religion? Nobody. At least not by name. "Anonymous" is the self-label of a loose-knit group of hackers that has started vandalizing religious websites. In the latest such case, the Vatican'ssite, vatican.va, was disabled on March 7, not...

The hacker group 'Anonymous' is gaining traction and notoriety across the globe for coordinated cyber-attacks on state organizations and companies. "Every person that does wrong things is justifying them somehow. These people are justifying it by...