When the FBI and the DOJ seized Megaupload earlier, they certainly might have guessed that a retaliatory attack will arrive at any moment. But unfortunately they weren’t prepared for the strike that came later on from Anonymous which has now left quite a number of sites completely dead.

As you already know, Megaupload is now officially dead and a few of its employees are in custody as well. The hacker group that calls itself Anonymous, which was already not too impressed with the proposed antipiracy bills, boiled over after the attack on the website and has flown into a hacking fury.

Anonymous has launched a counterattack against the websites of the DOJ (DoJ.gov), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Universal Music Group (UMG), FBI and many other websites related to the movie and music industries.

To the horror of many industry related sites, the DDoS attack, which appears to be one of the biggest coordinated attacks ever assembled by the hacking collective, is still ongoing at the moment. Although many sites managed to come alive, many others are still suffering.

Anonymous has released a statement following the attacks. Check it out here.

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So much for all the black outs and all! It appears like they can do whatever they want without passing any new legistlation. The feds have brought the curtain down on Megaupload, one of the most popular “locker services” on the Internet. No, you haven’t missed anything; SOPA and PIPA are yet to be passed.

Calling it one of the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States, the FBI and the Justice Department seized the website and have taken seven Megaupload employees into custody accusing them of running an international enterprise based on Internet piracy.

According to the federal indictment, the website is responsible for a loss of over $500 million in media revenue.

The site’s founder Kim “Dotcom” Schlitz has been arrested in New Zealand. But no hints about what’s going to happen to the website’s CEO rap producer Swizz Beatz who seems to be not too worried about the matter probably because he is still a successful rap producer, an NYU professor, and most importantly Alicia Keys’ husband.

And it’s only been a day after internet’s big protests over the proposed antipiracy bills. The authorities didn’t need any new powers to bring down the giant website. And how big it is, you ask? According to the Department of Justice, the website boasted “more than 150 million registered users, 50 million daily visitors and accounting for four percent of the total traffic on the Internet“.

See below if you want to take a peek at the full indictment.
Mega Indictment

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This whole PlayStation Network hacking fiasco has been a PR nightmare for Sony and it looks like the bad press is about to get a heck of a lot worse. Not only did Sony allow the hackers to gain access to your account info and your credit card info, apparently they waited two days before they even thought to contact the proper authorities.

Based on the most recent reports, Sony didn’t make first contact with the FBI until two days after they discovered the security breach. What’s more, they didn’t meet up with FBI officials over the matter until five days later. During those five days, who knows what the hackers were able to accomplish and how much of that could have been prevented with the right intervention.

Sony is saying that Anonymous, the group that has no trouble taking down other major corporations to make a statement, indirectly allowed the hacker(s) to get into Sony’s servers. Yes, they’re trying to make themselves out to the be the victim here — and they are a victim — but they could have done more to protect themselves and their users.

It doesn’t help that Sony isn’t being exactly open and forthcoming with what little information it has.

“Sony needs to make a statement to consumers: ‘You will not be harmed, and we will indemnify you against any harm,’” said Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter. “And they just have not done that in any of their apologies.”

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