Anonymous Targets Biotech Giant Monsanto with Database Raid
The hacker community has risen to the challenge of targeting the single most evil corporation in the world -- a corporation responsible for countless crimes against humanity and the attempted overthrow of global agriculture. That firm, of course,...
March 1, 2012 | Source: International Business Times | by Gianluca Mezzofiore
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The Anonymous collective has staged an indirect
attack on the Monsanto corporation by publishing material related to the agricultural biotech company’s database on Pastehtml.
In December 2011, Anonymous targeted the Bivings Group, which handles PR for Monsanto, following a previous assault on the corporation.
The hacktivists initially attacked Monsanto in July 2011 over
the company filing lawsuits against a number of organic dairy farmers,
who had labelled their products as not containing growth hormones, which
the corporation used to manufacture.
On that occasion, Anonymous released the contact details of 2,500 Monsanto employees.
The new attack was announced by YourAnonNews, who tweeted: “HACKED: Monsanto pwnt once more by
#
Anonymous – Old DB lifted and leaked | http://pastehtml.com/view/bpvygosbp.html.”
The collective published a statement on Pastehtml, accompanied
by rapper B Dolan performing a song that draws on fellow rapper Jay-Z’s
Lucifer, along with the contents of a long list of email messages
hacked earlier from the Bivings Group.