Best Hacks by the Hacktivist Group 'Anonymous'
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In October, Anonymous gained attention and praise for taking down more than 40 illegal child pornography websites. Members of the group discovered a cache of the sites on Oct. 14 while browsing a secret website called the Hidden Wiki, a guide to hundreds of underground websites that are invisible to search engines. The hackers specifically targeted Lolita City, a file-sharing site used by pedophiles, and leaked the names of the site's 1,589 active members to the public on Oct. 18.
Not only did this hacking campaign, called "Operation Darknet," go where law enforcement agencies had been unable to go, it also exposed a very dark side of the Internet. The "darknet," as it's called, is not just hard to reach for regular users, it is actually deliberately concealed through data encryption. [More about Operation Darknet]