Anonymous, a large yet loosely formed group of hackers that claimed responsibility for crashing the Web sites of MasterCard and the Church of Scientology, began attacking the Orlando-based Web sites earlier this week.
Photograph: IRINA OHO / HO/EPA 2.51pm GMT The website of the Australian Federal Police appears to have been targeted by Indonesian hackers, who claimed responsibility for crashing the site overnight on Wednesday Jakarta time, reports Oliver Laughland in Jakarta.
On Saturday, hackers who say they are members of the collective known as Anonymous claimed responsibility for crashing the Web site of the group, Stratfor Global Intelligence Service, and pilfering its client list, e-mails and credit card information in an operation they say is intended to steal $1 million for donations to charity.
Have they learned nothing about their responsibility for crashing the economy in the first place?" Activists, the majority of whom had been bussed up from London, visited nearby residential streets to deliver leaflets and put up the 300th Lib Dem stake board in the constituency.
Nico Rosberg has been fined a six-figure sum after the German accepted responsibility for crashing into Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton at the Belgian Grand Prix. (Daily Mail) .
The hackers also claimed responsibility for crashing the Toronto Police Service, Canadian Parliament, and Supreme Court for shorter periods.
This past Wednesday afternoon, Anonymous also claimed responsibility for crashed federal emails and several department websites.
The recall and surrounding recriminations set off a bitter fight by Bridgestone and Ford Motor over responsibility for the crashes.
Jorge Dominguez, chief investigator for Venezuela's consumer protection agency, the Institute for Consumer Protection and Education, today repeated the accusation he made on Monday -- that Ford shared responsibility for the crashes.
Audi has already said it will take full responsibility for any crashes that occur while its cars are in self-driving mode, but first it has to know if the car was in self-driving mode and that's up to the drivers.
