Monday, August 15, 2011

HACKIVIST GROUP ANONYMOUS ATTACKED BART WEBSITE



San Francisco, CA - Sunday, another attacked made by the Hackivist group Anonymous who destroyed San Francisco's  Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) website, myBART.org.   As of Monday, the site is still down, with a message that reads, "This site  is currently under renovation."

The  attack resulted when BART blocked cell service to thwart a protest on Thursday. 

BART'S decision on act of cellphone censorship, Anonymous launched its #OpBART campaign and used Twitter to rally supporters. 

Anonymous promised last Saturday, that BART's website will shut down on 12 p.m. PT the following day, Sunday. Making good of its promise, myBART.org, was shut down,  a satellite site used for marketing purposes. The group defaced the site with Anonymous logos and released personal contact information for at least 2,400 of the sites' 55,000 users, including names, addresses, phone number and email accounts. 

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