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On August 14, Anonymous posted on its Twitter feed what it claimed was the name of the officer involved in the shooting. [163] [164] However, police said the identity released by Anonymous was incorrect. [165] Twitter subsequently suspended the Anonymous account from its service. [166]
January 14: Anonymous declared war on the Church of Scientology and bombarded them with DDoS attacks, harassing phone calls, black faxes, and Google bombing. [7] [8]February–December: Known as Project Chanology, Anonymous organized multiple in-person pickets in front of Churches of Scientology world-wide, starting February 10 and running throughout the year, achieving coordinated pickets in ...
Cottle also says he’s investigating suspected QAnon support by foreign governments and that he gets information from friends at Twitter, Facebook, and Google. But the vigilante tactics can be ...
[8] [9] Reuters named Cottle as one of those responsible for the group's presence on Twitter. [10] In August 2020, Cottle identified himself as a founder of Anonymous in an article by Dale Beran in The Atlantic. [1] Cottle said in a November 2020 Reddit AMA that "right now my only end-goal is bringing the QAnon game to a conclusion". [3]
On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [1] [2] Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to Twitter's administrative tools so that they could alter the accounts themselves and post the tweets directly.
Clark is widely regarded as the "mastermind" of the 2020 Twitter account hijacking, [5] [6] an event in which Clark worked with Mason Sheppard and Nima Fazeli to compromise 130 high-profile Twitter accounts to push a cryptocurrency scam involving bitcoin along with seizing "OG" (short for original) usernames to sell on OGUsers.
AnonPlus's main webpage was replaced with an image of a dog wearing a suit, mocking the more normal Anonymous logo, and messages in Turkish and English. [6] Three days later, it was defaced a second time by the rival hacking group Syrian Electronic Army . [ 7 ]
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