Anonymous Twitter Account Hacked By Rival Group 'Rustle League'

Faline · #1 ● 05-31-2013, 07:18 PM

The hackers become the hacked.

Your Anon News, a subset of the hactivist collective Anonymous, had its Twitter account hacked early Friday morning by a rival group of hackers.

The little-known "Rustle League," a group that the U.K.'s Vice has characterized as Anonymous' "dedicated trolls," got access to the account at around 2:30 a.m. Friday. In addition to hacking @YourAnonNews, which has more than one million followers, the Rustle League also apparently hacked the account led by the Anonymous-allied group People's Liberation Front.

The Rustle League has hacked Anonymous-led Twitter accounts before: @YourAnonNews was first hacked by the Rustle League in December 2012, while Anonymous' central Twitter account, @Anon_Central, was attacked by the League in February of this year. The more recent attacks have focused on disseminating the #RustleLeague hashtag and included racially-offensive language.

As of 11 a.m. Friday, the rightful owners of the @YourAnonNews Twitter account had regained control and deleted the Rustle League's tweets. The People's Liberation Front account appears to still be hacked and displays the #RustleLeague hashtag.

But take note: There may be reason to doubt these hacks are even real. After the February attack, Anonymous and the Rustle League both belatedly claimed that the "hack" had been coordinated as a joke. Will the same be said of these attacks? Maybe.

ices · #2 ● 06-01-2013, 02:05 PM

Amounts of fucks I give.

0.000000000000000000000000000001

Wait sorry.

0

redsin7 · #3 ● 06-01-2013, 03:13 PM

Oh snap..........

hal0mega · #4 ● 06-01-2013, 04:30 PM

in 50 years we'll hear them bragging about their 'famous' world cyber hacking war like it's fucking Vietnam. This is only the begining...

ldelgadillo · #5 ● 06-01-2013, 06:45 PM

ha ha

**kellyhound** · #6 ● 06-02-2013, 07:29 AM

maybe its their way of having fun lol

GregK · #7 ● 06-03-2013, 02:43 PM

Why dont they make better use of their skills?

Smackeddie · #8 ● 06-03-2013, 03:07 PM

it's a troll to gain publicity.
it worked... they did it a while ago too, the whole thing was a set up
"For The Lulz"

Smackeddie · #9 ● 06-03-2013, 03:13 PM

also on the topic of Anon.
they did not hack the EDL facebook or twitter... it was a group calling themselves "Anonymous UK". which have been proven to be mainly members of the pro-islamic groups and also far left wing nuts, their real name is "TeamPoison".

Anonymous Twitter Account Hacked By Rival Group 'Rustle League'

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