Fighting for the separation of church and state, Anonymous hacks a Christian extremist website working towards an American theocracy.
According to a report dated July 24, hacktivists associated with the international collective known as Anonymous hacked and leaked close to 10,000 usernames and passwords from Intercessors For America , a group “of like-minded people who recognized the need for God to intervene in U.S. governmental and cultural issues."
Cyber War News reports the hack and leak as “a raw sql extraction which contains user accounts and administrator accounts as well as server accounts. Account details are mostly email addresses and clear text passwords with the administrator and server passwords being encrypted. All together there is 9,885 non duplicated email:password combos found.”
Speculating on the motivation of the Anonymous hacktivists, Eduard Kovacs at Softpedia writes: “As far as their motivation is concerned, it appears the attackers don’t like that the religious organization is interfering with the government.”
The Anonymous hacktivists responsible for posting the document containing the leaked material left a brief, terse statement, noting that “This leak is in the true spirit of Anonymous. Any individual trying to claim responsibility for it is not the hacker who did it.” And, perhaps more importantly, “Never should religion interfere with government.”
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