Zimbabwe, Brazil, UMG, Viacom hit by AntiSec campaign
Hackers today released data they said was from the governments of Zimbabwe and Brazil, entertainment giants Universal Music Group and Viacom, and a municipal government in Australia.
Meanwhile, the Anonymous group also reportedly temporarily shut down a tourism Web site for Orlando, Fla., with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack today to protest the arrest of Food not Bombs volunteers for serving food in public in Orlando without a permit.
Later in the day the data dump, which the hackers said was the first official release from the AntiSec campaign launched by Anonymous and LulzSec last week, appeared on The Pirate Bay file-sharing site. It purports to offer for download nearly 380 megabytes of data, including information from: the Zimbabwe government, Mosman Municipal Council (mosman.nsw.gov.au), Universal Music Group Partners and umusic.com's user:passwords, internal mapping of Viacom and its servers, Brazil government passwords and other data. The type and origin of the released data could not immediately be verified.
