Anonymous 'hacktivists' shut police, government and court websites
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 @ 12:33 PM
'MYSTERY hackers' Anonymous have struck again – this time, shutting down the websites of the National Police, the reigning socialist (PSOE) party and the Constitutional Court.
All three organisations assure it has been 'business as usual' since the cyber-attack, but that they had 'several admin headaches' as a result.
Anonymous, which – as its name suggests – is an unknown 'hacktivist' group which operates across the country, tampering with websites to make its political views, largely left-wing, known to authorities.
This time, they were acting within their soi-disant 'Operation Free Catalunya' campaign, which has involved a series of hack attacks ever since the previous national government triggered Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution to strip the north-eastern region of its self-rule and financial control in response to the disputed independence referendum of October 1.
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