Internet hacker gangs attack ACS:Law and release everything

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#1  Edited By Benny
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11418962     
 
4chan make headlines again this time for going after a Law firm that is apparently notorious for targeting people who pirate stuff online like porn, cds, movies and whatever else. 
They decided to get a hold of a ton of ACS:Law's private information and the personal details of everyone the Law firm targeted, including what they were being targeted for i.e. what pornos they downloaded etc.  
 
They then released the details of over 5000 people to the public via The Pirate Bay. You can go and check it out now and you may find someone you know if they are using Sky Broadband. 
 
I doubt The Pirate Bay and its user base will be too happy with them doing this. I mean, posting the details of thousands of alleged file sharers on a popular torrent site?... 
 
I can only assume something found in the info they grabbed will shed a bad light on ACS:Law .
 
Anyone else read up on this or found anyone they know within the info?
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#2  Edited By meteora

Talk about business retaliation; I don't think I've ever seen a business resort to such tactics.

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#3  Edited By KaosAngel

Good for 4chan, keeping us safe from corporations.

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#4  Edited By Jeffsekai

yay 4chan

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#5  Edited By tooPrime
@KaosAngel said:
" Good for 4chan, keeping us safe from corporations. "
Are you serious?  You deserve Dante with a different hair color. 
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#6  Edited By KaosAngel
@tooPrime said:
" Are you serious?  You deserve Dante with a different hair color.  "
4chan does good time to time, they're on our side bro and stand up to justice.
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lol gangs... anonymous is not a gang.

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#8  Edited By Benny
@zudthespud said:
" lol gangs... anonymous is not a gang. "
I just used the term as it's one of many dumb inside jokes on GB :P
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#9  Edited By Hamz

Interesting.

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#10  Edited By HandsomeDead

Nice. It was them who falsely accused me of downloading some Ministry of Sound collection and wanted £375 off me.

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#11  Edited By luce
@Hamz said:
" Interesting. "
Am I wrong to assume you were stroking your beard when saying that?
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#12  Edited By Meowayne
>"internet hacker gangs"
>"4chan"
>mfw 

 
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#13  Edited By Kazona

I honestly couldn't care less about that list. People pirate shit; they watch porn. Big deal. 

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#14  Edited By wrathofconn
@luce
@Hamz said:
" Interesting. "
Am I wrong to assume you were stroking your beard when saying that?
I was stroking MY beard when he said that.
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#15  Edited By HandsomeDead
@wrathofconn said:
" @luce
@Hamz said:
" Interesting. "
Am I wrong to assume you were stroking your beard when saying that?
I was stroking MY beard when he said that. "
I was stroking myself when he said that.
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#16  Edited By babblinmule

I've no sympathy for ACS:Law - they deserve to be taken down a peg for exploiting innocent people.

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#17  Edited By deusdigit
@Benny: I don't understand why 4chan is even given the chance to "hack something" on a regular basis. unless the security was weak, do people even use other operating systems besides windows or stealth their routers anymore? especially a law firm.
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#18  Edited By ahriman22
@deusdigit: Believe it or not, but there are a handful of 4chan users who know what they're doing. Most just try to DDOS sites though.
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#19  Edited By Vinny_Says

wait....So hackers hacked the files that a law firm had gathered on hackers and then posted said information on a hacker website to let other hackers know who these hackers are?

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#20  Edited By iam3green

pretty interesting. it is good that they would do that to the people that want to make the law. i just think that it is stupid for that to happen. people should just get deal with piracy and try to stop it instead of hunting down people. there are going to be new ways of pirating instead of using torrents. 

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#21  Edited By TheFreeMan

I'm confused. They took the personal data of people being targeted by the firm, and then posted that data online?
 
....well, okay, maybe I'm looking at this wrong (if I'm understanding it right), in that the hackers didn't want to help the people being targeted but just wanted to damage the guys targeting them?

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#22  Edited By TheMustacheHero
@blacklabeldomm said:
" wait....So hackers hacked the files that a law firm had gathered on hackers and then posted said information on a hacker website to let other hackers know who these hackers are? "
No. 
 
Hacker, hackers, hacker hacker HACKERS hackers hacked hacking hackers.
 
Got it?
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#23  Edited By HandsomeDead
@TheMustacheHero said:
" @blacklabeldomm said:
" wait....So hackers hacked the files that a law firm had gathered on hackers and then posted said information on a hacker website to let other hackers know who these hackers are? "
No.   Hacker, hackers, hacker hacker HACKERS hackers hacked hacking hackers.  Got it? "
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I read that the 4chan guys released the information of over 9000 people, not 5000.  
 
Guess I got mixed up somewhere, eh?

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#25  Edited By Synthballs
@blacklabeldomm said:
" wait....So hackers hacked the files that a law firm had gathered on hackers and then posted said information on a hacker website to let other hackers know who these hackers are? "
Ow. My Head :(
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#26  Edited By MrKlorox

What the hackers did doesn't make any sense. They're only hurting those who were already targeted.

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#27  Edited By Lemoncookie01

Damn those internet hacker gangs *shakes fist*

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#28  Edited By Animasta

NOT ACS:LAW
 
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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#29  Edited By alistercat
@MrKlorox said:
" What the hackers did doesn't make any sense. They're only hurting those who were already targeted. "
Well under their logic they're exposing breaches of privacy and bullying tactics to extort money for potential copyright infringement. This damages the companies reputation, and has already attracted the attention of quite a few lawsuits.
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#30  Edited By scarace360
@zudthespud: What color is the 4chan gang repin? And do they have a jolly roger?
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#31  Edited By RandomHero666

ACS are cunts, they sent me a letter claiming i downloaded porn and asked for 500 quid. 
Long live 4chan! Just don't make me ever go there again 
 
Going to see if my info is on said document

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@HandsomeDead said:
" Nice. It was them who falsely accused me of downloading some Ministry of Sound collection and wanted £375 off me. "
Damn, and I thought I had it bad when my ISP called my house twice about torrenting movies. You didn't have to pay, did you?
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#33  Edited By Jeust

Payback's a bitch. :p

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#34  Edited By StaticVoidMain

Lol This chick is just asking for trouble: 
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/11430299 
 
We know she's called  Claire,  
We know she's from Shropshire,  
We know she was accused of downloading "Chubby Chasers" 
We know from what she said there's gotta be a shadow of a doubt her fell did it....
The whole world has that list now, just to make sure they're not on it themselves...  
So we can find her full address... 
She put her picture up on the BBC website in that article so we can find her on facebook. 
Via her friends list we can find her fella's name... 
 
Then all is left to do is mail a copy of Chubby Chasers 2 to that address with her blokes name on it. 
 
And to unlock the dick-bag achievement: Use all that personal data to accidentaly bump into her in her local supermarket  3 or 4 days later and pick her up on the rebound. Then While your having a nice candle lit dinner tell her you've always been attracted to the larger lady. 
 
It's cyber-sociopathy  101 really ;¬P  
 
Kidding aside the BBC are fucking idiots if any of the information in that article is genuine. Every one in the world has her address and they go and show a picture of her so the Shropshire-Ripper can get himself a sexy new Claire-suit.... That  or dicks like me can mail  her empty DVD boxes with fat-chick porn sleeves on them.

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#35  Edited By HandsomeDead
@Everyones_A_Critic said:

" @HandsomeDead said:

" Nice. It was them who falsely accused me of downloading some Ministry of Sound collection and wanted £375 off me. "
Damn, and I thought I had it bad when my ISP called my house twice about torrenting movies. You didn't have to pay, did you? "
No. I sent them a letter of denial and didn't hear anything back. They had no proof and considering how they weren't asking me for anything other than to pay in exchange for letting me keep the download, it just sounded like shady bully tactics.
 
EDIT: 
 
@StaticVoidMain: Speaking of shady bully tactics, I like how in that BBC interview, they ask her to prove that she's innocent rather than questioning the company that's making the claims.
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#36  Edited By WilliamRLBaker
@KaosAngel said:
" Good for 4chan, keeping us safe from corporations. "
and any one with different opinions then the majority of 4chan...
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#37  Edited By StaticVoidMain
@HandsomeDead: Speaking of speaking of shady bully tactics & the BBC: TV Tax... err I mean licenses. 
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#38  Edited By SeriouslyNow
@ahriman22 said:
" @deusdigit: Believe it or not, but there are a handful of 4chan users who know what they're doing. Most just try to DDOS sites though. "
There's more than a handful.  Unichan.