Anonymous protests shut down the us train stations

Bart station Civic Center was closed after protesters gathered there. Police said there had been no arrests. Photo: Jeff Chiu/Associated Press

Four San Francisco underground railway stations closed temporarily on Monday during a demonstration organized by the group anonymous of attacker, alleged police violence and freedom of expression.

Service Bay Area Rapid Transit (Bart) commuter train cut off mobile phone networks in some stations on Thursday to stop the demonstrators who organise a protest over the fatal shooting of a man by police last month.

"This was a complete silencing of the people," said Carlos Wilson, a 41-year-old gay rights activist who came to protest against the killings and closure of the mobile phone network in the last week.

A few dozen protesters turned on for the operation, during rush hour, which ended when authorities closed the Civic Center station. Three other stations to close later, briefly, apparently due to crowding.

Police said there had been no arrests, although officers arrived dressed in riot gear.

Mobile phone service was left on the station during the operation, and some demonstrators took as a sign of victory. Beck Simmons, a 21-year-old student, said: "I have more cell service now than usual on Bart. I think what they did last time was an empty threat. I have full bars. " Anonymous, a loose knit group that has attacked the financial and Government websites, had called for protestors to descend on station 5 PM.

Would-be protesters were encouraged to download the software for short-range mobile to mobile messaging, in the case of the in-station network was cut off again.

Bart said a website for its users mybart.org,, had been hacked over the weekend, and contact information of at least 2,400 people had stolen.

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Anonymous Hackers breach transport site

Anonymous hackers breached Bart public transportation website Sunday. This screenshot shows a page from myBart.org after the attack. Photo: AP

Anonymous online hacker collective broke into a Web site belonging to San Francisco's public transport body Sunday after authorities threatened to thwart a anti-police protest by throttling the town's mobile phone network.

Hackers said the attack was in retaliation for group Bay Area Rapid Transit (Bart) attempt to stifle demonstrations on the deadly shooting of a man by the police last month.

Anonymous published contact details of more than 2,000 Bay Area bebøre, apparently stolen from the site unavailable was on Monday morning.

The incident is the latest showdown in a free speech battle between authorities and online activists. A separate attacker group identification plate last week, the official website for research in motion, BlackBerry maker, when the company said it would cooperate with police investigations English riots.

In a message posted on the site hacked Bart Sunday, anonymous wrote: "we are anonymous, we are your citizens, we are human beings, we cannot tolerate oppression from any government agency. Bart has been shown several times, they have no problem exploiting and abusing people. "

A Bart spokesperson told local media the FBI and Department of homeland security to investigate the attack. He added: "we will take steps to ensure our customers are secure. Disconnection of mobile phone service was made Thursday to prevent what could have been a dangerous situation. It is one of the tactics we have at our disposal. We can use it; We can not. And I am not sure that we necessarily would let anyone knows in advance either way.

Anonymous bills itself as " internet defenders of freedom". Amorphous group shot to notoriety in December 2010 for attack on global companies, including visa and PayPal after these companies severed ties with the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange.

More recently, have collectively expressed support for the Arab incursions, and called on Western communities to revolt against the authorities.

Sunday, anonymous said it sympathized with the riots and looting across parts of England last week. It described the demonstrations as "a product of decades of neglect inflicted on your country by various Governments."

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Anonymous attack U.S. Sheriffs websites

Brooks Jeffrey marketing in Mountain Home, Arkansas, which hosted many of the sites targeted by anonymous. Photograph: Frank Wallis/AP

Group of hackers known anonymous which says it has hacked into some 70 mainly rural law enforcement Web sites in the United States, a data breach that at least a local police chief said the leaked sensitive information about an ongoing investigation.

The loose wrists hacking collective international posted a data cache to the Internet early on Saturday, including e-mails stolen from officers, tips, seemed to come from members of the public, credit card numbers and other information.

Anonymous said it had stolen 10 gigabytes worth of data in retaliation for the arrests of its sympathizers in the United States and United Kingdom.

Tim Mayfield, a police chief in Gassville, Arkansas, told the Associated Press, some of the material posted online – including images of teenage girls in swimsuits – were sent to him as part of an ongoing investigation. He declined to give more details.

Mayfields remarks were the first indication that hack can be serious. Since the news of a kind of cyber-attacks filtered only from less than a week ago, said various police officials they were unaware that hack or dismissed it as nothing to worry about.

Although many of the leaked e-mails appeared benign, made some of the stolen material sensitive information, including tips about suspected crimes, profiles rockers and safety training.

Emails were mainly from the Sheriffs offices in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Mississippi. Many of the sites, which were driven by a media services hosting company located in Mountain Home, Arkansas, and most, if not all, were either not available on Saturday or had been wiped clean of content. The company, Brooks Jeffrey marketing, refused to comment on.

Anonymous said in a statement it had leaked "a massive amount of confidential information, there is sure to [skandalisere], discredit and accuse police officers across the United States". The group said it hoped revelations would "demonstrate inherently corrupt nature of law enforcement by using their own words," and "interfering with and sabotaging their ability to communicate and terrorise communities".

The Group did not say specifically why these Sheriffs departments was targeted, but anonymous members increasingly have been perpetrated by law enforcement United States and in other places following a string of high-profile data thefts and Denial of service attack – operations, block websites by flooding them with traffic.

Last month, the FBI and Dutch and British officials made 21 arrests, many of them related to the Group's attacks on internet payment provider PayPal, which was targeted over its refusal to process the donations to WikiLeaks. Anonymous also claims credit for disrupting the sites of Visa and MasterCard in December when the credit card companies stopped processing donations to WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange.

Internet security experts said anonymous may gone after Sheriffs offices, because the hosting company was an easy target. Dick Mackey, Vice-President of consulting on SystemExperts in Sudbury, Massachusetts, said many organisations could not see themselves as potential targets for international hackers, causing the indifference that could leave them vulnerable.

"It seems to me to be the low-hanging fruit," he said. "If you want to go after a person, and a comment and will have their defence be low, go for a person who does not consider itself a goal."

As part of the information posted from U.S. Sheriffs departments, leaked anonymous five credit card numbers it said it needed to make the "involuntary donations." At least four of the names and other personal information made public appeared genuine, even if they are contacted by the Associated Press said they did not know whether their financial information had been compromised.

Anonymous posted also several e-mails from police tips institutions, many of whom had asked law enforcement not to use their names for fear of reprisals. A tipster wrote that his uncle was a convicted sexual offender, who was homeless and hanging around a Miniclip Game-Paintball and other places where children were. Another tipster wrote to the police that she and her neighbors could smell drugs comes from a House. Neither responded to e-mails requesting comment.

Most calls to more than two dozen interested Sheriffs offices went unanswered or were not returned on Saturday. Several confirmed that a cyber-attack had taken place, and some said they do not trøde very sensitive information had been leaked.

"At this point, other than emails ... There isn't really any other critical information, they could get their hands on," said John Montgomery, Sheriff in Baxter County in Northern Arkansas.

St Francis County sheriff, Bobby may, said in Arkansas, his Department and several others had been targeted in retaliation for the arrests of hackers who had targeted the Apple Computer, among other companies.

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