Hacktivists Back Hong Kong’s Occupy Central
Pro-democracy student protesters confront police outside of the Chief Executive office in the government complex in Hong Kong. Wally Santana/AP
Autism site in the dot-HK domain becomes one of the first victims.
The loosely configured hacker group Anonymous has started a new operation targeting so-called Chinese oppressors, The Washington Post reports.
In website defacements and a video message, the collective aligns itself with the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.
“'This is Operation HongKong. We Will Not Stop': Hackers claiming to be part of Anonymous have hacked multiple websites in Hong Kong, including the Autism Partnership Hong Kong,” Channel NewsAsia reported in an Oct. 1 update.
A video circulated through the website News2share threatens to “deface and take every Web-based asset of your government off line.”
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