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is experiencing a wave of hacker attacks Anonymous

November 16th, 2011 | Posted by synt4x in Security

Finland is in the sights of hackers, activists, confirmed this Tuesday the police after a local branch of the group Anonymous found that they had been hacked about 500 000 email accounts.

“All of this begins to look like a planned campaign,” – said in an interview with AFP Timo Piiroynen from the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation.

A group calling itself Anonymous Finland, claimed responsibility for numerous cases of burglary occurred in the country, including hacking and publication of some 500 000 email accounts and about 15 000 passwords.

Also, personal information and contacts about 16 000 Finns flowed in another incident, a group who pleaded responsible.

The police said that Finland has suffered from random attacks in the past, but recently the situation – it is something else.

“In these cases, there are common elements, which means that they are linked, and we are investigating them,” – said it Piiroynen.

Among the hacked boxes allegedly have accounts of journalists largest daily newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, the Finnish member of parliament, policemen, town councilors Helsinki, students and faculty of several universities in the country.

Anonymous Finland has also launched a campaign against right-wing extremists from the Finnish Resistance Movement and October 31 published a list of applications for membership.

On Monday, the group announced that it is launching a series of attacks against the Finnish mining company Talvivaara, allegedly due to the fact that the company’s activities in Sotkamo, in eastern Finland, “is detrimental to the local environment and residents of the community.”

Arguing that the mining company all the time exceeds the permitted emission limit, Anonymous Finland said that their attacks are linked to global offensive called “Operation Green Rights” and described as “a series of actions to protect and preserve the environment.”

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