Hacker collective Anonymous \u201cdoxed\u201d over 4,000 bank executives by posting their phone numbers, computer logins and other personal information on a government website Sunday — revenge for policies that they say led to the suicide of an Internet activist. A spreadsheet containing the information was posted to the .gov website of the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center [it has since been taken down].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The leak is part of Operation Last Resort, the group\u2019s campaign to reform computer crime law in the wake of Aaron Swartz\u2019s death, according to the faction\u2019s Twitter account.<\/p>\n
The leaks came after computer attacks last weekend in which the hacktivist group turned the United States Sentencing Commission website into a game of Asteroids.<\/p>\n
Last Monday, a House panel issued a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding answers regarding the prosecution of Aaron Swartz. The group believes that an overzealous prosecution and outdated computer crime laws may have contributed to Swartz\u2019s suicide.<\/p>\n
Swartz, a Harvard researcher who was known for his contributions to the development of RSS and the popular website Reddit, was charged for a slew of crimes including computer and wire fraud after breaking into MIT campus and systematically downloading academic journals from a service called JSTOR.<\/p>\n
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