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No, it’s not a bad episode of Black Mirror. What’s going on with the world this year has been just as insane as real.<\/strong> And just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get more dramatic, Anonymous reappear.<\/strong> In fact, this is not the first time they interfere through their ”hacktivism.”<\/a> They have been present for a while<\/strong>, taking the defense of those suffering of political agendas and injustice. So, in addition to their recent ”virtual artwork”, here are 6 times Anonymous left us speechless.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Operation Didgeridie<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The involvement of the active online-activist group <\/strong>made their first headline sin 2009. The attack targeted the Australian government.<\/strong> Furthermore, Anonymous were able to service attack to take the Prime Minister’s website<\/strong> offline for about an hour.\u00a0The reason? he had announced he will be censoring certain adult content on the Internet, while encouraging others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Operation Tunisia<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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In 2011, Tunisia became one of the countries that went down in history. The whole world watched as Tunisians rammed the streets protesting against their government.<\/strong> This was the begging of a world-shaping movement, called the Arab Spring.<\/strong> During the uprise, WikiLeaks <\/strong>and social media were a major instigator during the protests. Anonymous revealed confidential information <\/strong>leaking the government to several illegal activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

HBGary Barr\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Anonymous were the reason behind the scandal of Aaron Barr<\/strong>, CEO of HBGary Barr. The group infiltrated data to cause the company to live one of their worst days. <\/strong>First, they shut down the entire phone service, homepage and emails. <\/strong>From which, they made public ”over 68,000 private e-mails which included presentations, information on competing firms, and info on HBGary Barr’s plans on taking down WikiLeaks.” <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Payback<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Imagine how powerful Anonymous have to be in order to shut down payment methods. Several companies started to shut down their business with WikiLeaks ( supporting the government guidelines.)<\/strong> As a consequence, he group shut down both Visa’s and MasterCard’s sites<\/strong> on December 8, 2010. No only this, but they also declared war<\/strong> on several online platforms, such as Amazon, PayPal, and PostFinance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bank of America<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The operation Bank of America<\/strong> seems straight out of the professor’s plan in Money Heist<\/a>. In fact, this was definitely one of their finest work, and Anonymous left us speechless.<\/strong> Following news of shady mortgage loans within the bank,<\/strong> the group managed to release e-mails from a previous employee.<\/strong> Although none of the documents were incriminating, it still gave media something to talk about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Operation Jefferey Epstein<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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