Launched on Friday evening and continued throughout Saturday attack at the site of French President Nicolas Sarkozy www.elysee.fr crowned burglary site - by Anonymous movement placed in the address bar of their "signature» - «We Are Legion», which is a distinctive sign groupings. In addition, visitors could see offensive inscriptions addressed to Sarkozy (possibly fake screenshots contain obscene language, most soft wishes to terminate the president promisesto pieces - «Sarkozy le peuple aura ta peau») and criticism of controversial law SOPA. Some publications claim that Anonymous used a modified version of the tool LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Canon), which uses voluntary participants for DDOS-attacks. By Saturday morning the administrators have already removed the effects of attack.
No twitter Anonymous, or any other sources do not explain
the exact reasons for the attack on the site of the highest person in the
state, but also how to write a lot of journalists, most likely this is due to a
promise to avenge the recent closure of file sharing MegaUpload. Nicolas
Sarkozy became the first European victim, perhaps, because he has a scandalous
reputation as the most active supporter of the fight against piracy, which
supports activities such as disconnecting users from the internet for
downloading pirated files. By the Minister of Culture of France Frederic
Mitterrand (nephew of former President) condemned the creators MegaUpload,
calling them "criminals" who "stole someone else's property."
Post some number of publications and to assess the
"human" scale attack haktivistom through which "lay" sites
FBI, U.S. Department of Justice, Universal Music and others - argued that the
attacks involved more than 9,000 hackers, which involves an unusual level of
grouping and possibly the presence of some senior center. Moreover, in light of
the announced number slogan «We are legion» is not that too opinionated.
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