Anonymous Leaks 50,000 E-Mails From Security Expert Who Planned to Rat Them Out

On Friday, the Financial Times published a story about the ongoing criminal investigation into Anonymous -- the notorious online collective of hacktivists that have orchestrated cyber-attacks on Visa, MasterCard, and a handful of authoritarian governments. In the article, the paper quoted a computer security expert named Aaron Barr, who claimed to have "penetrated" the group, and said that his findings could help authorities crack down on Anonymous. Upon hearing Barr's claims, Anonymous decided to retaliate, appropriately enough, by launching a devastating counter-attack.

On Sunday evening, members of the group hacked into Barr's e-mail account, and posted all 50,000 of his e-mails online in a 4.7-gigabyte file. They also trashed the site of HBGary Federal, the security firm for which Barr works, and took over the man's Twitter account, where they posted his social security number and a link to a file containing thousands of company e-mails. Reading through Barr's e-mails confirmed Anonymous's suspicions. The hackers discovered a document containing the real names and identifying information of Anonymous members, which Barr apparently had planned to sell to the FBI.

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