GoDaddy rejects claims they were hacked by Anonymous affiliate

Millions of GoDaddy websites went down on Monday, allegedly taken down by an Anonymous affiliate, AnonymousOwner3r. GoDaddy denies the hacking claims.

Digital Journal reported on Tuesday that an Anonymous hacker had claimed to take down millions of GoDaddy client websites. GoDaddy is Internet's largest domain registrar.

According to a statement by Scott Wagner, interim CEO of GoDaddy, the company denies accusations that a hacker was responsible for the takedown.... read more.

Anonymous hacks 'Aryan Front' neo-Nazi website

In their latest strike, the collective of hacktivists have attacked the Aryan Front Neo-Nazi website, leaving messages and downloading member information.

On Friday morning, users of the "white community" web forum found messages from Anonymous hacktivists when logging in. All posts made on Aryan-Front.com appeared to have been erased from the server, or at least were rendered unavailable to its 1,441 registered users.

Messages on the home page included "Hacked by Anonymous", "F*ck off, Nazi scum" and "You should have expected us." ... read full article.

The Pirate Bay hit by DDoS attack — Anonymous not responsible

The Pirate Bay was hit by a DDos attack and has been largely unavailable for 24 hours. They say that Anonymous are not responsible.

The Pirate Bay (TPB) has its suspicions who is responsible for the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Their Facebook page read, "Once we've awaken our tech guru Winston Q we'll get on the issue."

TPB's Facebook page now reads:

"Just to clarify, we KNOW that it is NOT Anonymous who is behind the ddos attack. Stop spreading rumours like that.

We may not agree with Anonymous in everything, but we both want the internet to be open and free.

There, now carry on with whatever it is you were doing." ... read full article.

Twitter hacked? Thousands of user names & passwords on Pastebin

Twitter has allegedly been hacked and tens of thousands of user names and passwords were published on pastebin.com. Should you be worried?

According to RT, the passwords for around 35,000 Twitter accounts were posted on the file-sharing website.

They state that Twitter tweeted: “We’re looking into the situation and have pushed out password resets to potentially affected accounts.”

However, Mashable is reporting that hackers affiliated with Anonymous had claimed this week to have published details of around 55,000 Twitter accounts.... read full article.