The popular Web site Gawker was recently hacked in retaliation Wikileaks treatment. This was no harmless prank, and instead released the source code and private e-mail conversations of employees of Gawker. The real danger is that other hackers can use this information to obtain the passwords of users of Gawker, and some have already been broken. The hackers released a 500-megabyte file and contains information for the world to see. Gawker was not the only web site hacked in the Gawker family, either. Gadget site Gizmodo, and Jezebel pop culture site were also affected by these special hackers. Files containing passwords for users and staff were available at the website, and people were sharing files over bit torrent. Several websites have been hacked recently after the publication of classified information by WikiLeaks and treatment of the founder and the company. Call it Operation Return, the hackers are attacking sites that have denied WikiLeaks and advertising service, Twitter and Gawker and now PayPal.
Operation Payback: Gawker Hit by Hackers
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