Claim: Anonymous attack brings down Talking Points Memo

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/09/claim-anonymous-attack-brings-down-talking-points-memo/

On Friday morning, the political website Talking Points Memo posted mug shots of several individuals arrested for their alleged connection with denial of service attacks carried out by the hacktivist group Anonymous.

TPM tweeted at the time, "We sincerely hope our site doesn't go down for posting this," but precisely that appears to have happened by Friday afternoon.

At 5:23 PM EST, the website National Confidential reported that TPM was offline, but then added four minutes later that the site was back. However, over the course of several attempts between 5:30 and 6:00, Raw Story was unable to get the main TPM page to load.

A page at the TPM site with the slide show of mugshots did load, but without the pictures. Its headline reads "Anonymous Unmarked," and a caption at the bottom explains, "Federal authorities in July arrested 16 alleged 'hackivists' they said were involved with the group Anonymous. Most of the defendants were accused of launching an attack on PayPal for disabling Wikileaks' account. Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, TPM has exclusively obtained their mugshots."


(think progress has this tweet)
http://twitter.com/#!/thinkprogress
UPDATE: .@TPM contacted us and says they don't have any evidence that their outage was the result of malicious activity

http://twitter.com/#!/BreakingNews
Update: Group The Script Kiddies claim hacking @NBCNews account, which is now suspended

NBC Twitter account hacked, issued false reports
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/09/7692776-nbc-twitter-account-hacked-issued-false-reports

[kentuck]

1. Now they are reporting that NBC's Twitter account has been hacked?

Could this be the start of something bigger?

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Well it could

[cal04]

3. I just read that on twitter and just announced that on the air

BREAKING: @MSNBC just announced the hack of the @NBCNEWS account on the air. IGNORE anything coming from it.

Breaking News
Update: Group The Script Kiddies claim hacking @NBCNews account, which is now suspended

[banned from Kos]

4. Hilarious! Anonymous does very little real service to liberals

Now they are attacking a liberal site for posting the TRUTH?

[Modern_Matthew]

5. They never fail to be entertaining. nt

[joeybee12]

6. Wow, 4 minutes...serious hacking...

or maybe just more BS from TPM, a joke of a site.

[frazzled]

7. I saw those pictures this morning

I know mug shots are probably not the most flattering thing on earth, but I do have to say that some of those people looked pretty, um, creepy. And I'm not one to consider looks--but a mullet?

[jwirr]

8. Are anonymous and script kids the same group? I heard it was the

latter that is doing this. Why TPM?

[saras]

9. They're not convicted of anything, right?

Why is anyone plastering their picture around anyways, and what makes them, or anyone, think they SHOULD get away with it?

[mmonk]

10. Obviously someone else feels the same way.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. Arrest records are public not private

That's the reason we were able to see Tom Delay's mugshot and oh so many others years before their convictions. It's also the reason we're able to know what exact charges are against a person. While a person is innocent until proven guilty, the arrest is not legally protected information.

For them to assume they're better than everyone else is simply wrong.