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The Anonymous hacking group has warned Toronto officials that it will "remove [the city] from the internet" if they follow through on plans to evict protesters of the Occupy Toronto movement.

"The brave citizens of Toronto are peaceful and well mannered occupiers," a computer-generated voice said in a 90-second video posted over the weekend on YouTube. "We have already planned this, so if we see any interruptions, we will launch the operation that we have planned for a while."

While the online activists, hackers, and others aligned with Anonymous have backed off on their threats of exposing members of the Mexican Zetas drug cartel, at least some of those involved are now taking their campaign forward against other Mexican narcotics organizations. And a North Carolina district attorney has become the first to be named in the new OpCartel "doxxing" campaign.

Latin American members of the activist hacker group Anonymous called off a November 5 plan to expose people associated with the Zetas, Mexico's most violent drug cartel, according to the group's blog.

In a post written in Spanish on the group's Latin American blog, the members said they had called off the action after the Zetas met a demand to release a kidnapped group member, and that: "We can say that, while bruised, he is alive and well".

A planned cyber attack on one of the most vicious drug cartels in Mexico by members of the hacker collective known as Anonymous is going ahead as planned, a spokesman for the group said today through a video posted to YouTube.

The online collective Anonymous is making threats to a Mexican drug cartel over the alleged kidnapping of one of its activists in Veracruz.

As Occupy Wall Street protesters continued to rally in Oakland, Calif., hackers today targeted the Web site for the city's police department and offered a $1,000 reward for information on police action that appears to have left a protester injured.

Contact information, schedules, badge numbers, and other information about Oakland Police Department officers was posted to a public Pastebin page. Meanwhile, the department's Web site also was down temporarily this morning, according to SC Magazine.

Pedophiles connecting to a concealed child pornography site got an unwelcome surprise last week, courtesy of the hacktivist group Anonymous. Lolita City, a child pornography site run on over a concealed “darknet,” has been taken down by Anonymous members, and account details of 1,589 users from the site’s database were posted as evidence.

In support for the Wall Street movement and as a form of retaliation against police brutality, the infamous hacktivits group attacked the websites of multiple law enforcement agencies and leaked tons of sensitive data of Pastebin.

Pastebin quickly moved to remove the posts, probably to clean itself of the “hacker's paradise” reputation they've earned recently, but one file still remains. The published information contains the mail credentials belonging to Boston Police Patrolmans' Association (BPPA) staff.

The New York Stock Exchange's website experienced slowness for a brief period of time Monday afternoon, on the same day that the hacker group "Anonymous" called for an attack against the Big Board operator's site.

There was some intermittent bandwidth saturation that prompted slowness on the site, according to a person familiar with the matter. But this person said the NYSE's internal systems weren't intruded upon and the site didn't experience an outage.

Protesters who have been camping out in Manhattan's Financial District say their movement has grown and become more organized, and they have no intention of stopping as they move into their third week, following the second weekend in a row of mass arrests.