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Anonymous's social network hacked

Stuart Sumner

25 July 2011 • 1 min read

Hacktivist group embarrassed by security failure

Anonplus, the nascent social network from hacktivist group Anonymous, has itself fallen foul of a hacker. Anonymous decided to launch the service because as a group rather than an individual it ...

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