Anonymous Exposes German ‘Neo-Nazis’ in New Attack
- Posted on January 4, 2012 at 7:53pm by
Liz Klimas
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In a new attack, the hacker collective Anonymous has released the names and other personal information of people from 15 “Neo-Nazi” websites in Germany. But, even anti-hate groups have come out saying that the hackers are going too far in releasing this information.
The Daily Mail reports that more than 1,000 names are posted on a new site called Nazi-leaks.net through Operation Blitzkrieg, which has been being conducted by the group since March 2011.
According to Spiegel (via Business Insider), the hackers seem to be featuring names from “alleged donors to the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD), internal NPD emails, a contacts list from the right-wing weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit and customer data from neo-Nazi online stores”.
Editor’s note: A German reader of The Blaze informs us that some of the targets of this Anonymous campaign should not be defined as “neo-Nazi.” Junge Freiheit, for example, is a respected publication of “new right” thought that could hardly be considered “neo-nazi.”
Some of the information on the website is reportedly from earlier hacks, but Spiegel notes that some information is dated from Dec. 27, which correlates with a hacker conference taking place Berlin during which time some right-wing sites were taken offline.
PC World reports that the Anonymous group that conducted these actions, operating under the Twitter account @OpBlitzkrieg, seems to be lacking support not only from other factions of Anonymous itself but even supported even by some Nazi-haters:
Even Nazi haters have criticized the tactics of Anonymous, according to Deutsche Welle. Referring to Anonymous attacks that have taken some extreme right wing sites offline, Simone Rafael, from the anti-Nazi website Netz-Gegen-Nazis, told the news outlet that it was good “to remove the [Nazi] filth from the Net for a few days” but not to publish personal data on the Internet without its owner’s permission.
“If some extreme right-winger were to do this, we’d be furious, too,” she added.
PC World goes on to include that the Anonymous group in Hamburg called this action a “bad” idea and that one member said “The best way to handle people like Nazis is with ridicule and education.”
Spiegel reports that Junge Freinheit filed charges to sue the operators of the site for what is “clearly a criminal act.”
Here’s the Anonymous video launching Operationg Blitzkrieg from earlier last year:
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Posted on January 6, 2012 at 10:42pmI thought “Anonymous” was supposed to be going after “Da man”? Neo-Nazis? LOL, White Nationalist/Racist. Neo-Nazis (whatever you want to call them) probably have the least political power/pull in “Western” society.
It would seem “Anonymous” is more into bullying powerless people, while avoiding powerful people, after claiming to go after powerful people!
Report Post »pmjr-jones
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:13pmthey worship the word priority
Report Post »Lion420
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:39amSome groups think this goes too far??? Really? Is it “Too Far” to post info on child molesters?? I would put Nazis up there with them. Both are pretty hideous people in my view, and deserve to be outed, so as to minimize the damage they can do to humaniity.
Report Post »sgtstubbs
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:55pmNot a bunch of differnce between both groups…or what happens over here.
Report Post »ZengaPA65
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:38pmIs Anonymous talking to German Nazis or just the people on the Blaze that commented on the Eric cantor article?
Report Post »GadsdenGurl
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:04pmFunny since Anonymous and his OWS criminals *ARE* neo-nazis and supported by the American Nazi Party… What a crock this is…. to show off their hacker skills.
Report Post »Thisnameistowarnyouthatyouwillhatemycomment
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:57pmIt’s always very entertaining when people have no clue what Anonymous is but talk like they do.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:31amAgree, just like the OWS crowd PRETENDING to protest Obama, to END the wars? Platform for agenda…
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:32amG GIRL.. you know what’s up!
Report Post »K Chad Roberts
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 2:15pmNo idea what Anonymous is huh? They are defined by their actions, not their words… and their actions are costly, disruptive and illegal. Many political groups say and do weird things, but Anonymous is one of the only ones who have disrupted my own actions directly. They are an affront to liberty and deserve nothing less than imprisonment for their crimes. Contemptible actions are not made right through a resulting “bad” party being punished. Anonymous might as well be talking about themselves in that video.
Report Post »UnreconstructedLibertarian
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:33pmThe European spectrum is different than what we understand in the USA. Left is Communism/Socialism – Right is Facism/Nationalism. The USA spectrum is Left=Total government – Right=No government.
The European scale is entirely left of center on the American scale. The sad part is that our political machine is attempting to become the European scale.
Report Post »GadsdenGurl
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:05pmYeah Mitt Romney is the road to socialism… he wants a VAT tax!
Report Post »lineinthesand
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:57amExcellent point. You never hear of a European Libertarian…all people over their have been “ruled” for the past 1,000 years so their culture revolves around being governed. This country was founded on the opposite premise….self-government.
Report Post »Mr Galt
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:11pmBet you $5 90% of the people they “outed” are not Nazis, just like 90+% of the people they outed from the Stratfor attack were not government 1%’ers.
Nice job giving these a$$clowns more publicity Blaze, without any regard for delving into all the facts.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:59pmUgh….every, single, time any story comes out about Nazi’s, they are described as “far-right”…Sorry, but Nazi’s the far-left, immediate cousins to the Communists.
Report Post »jcannon98188
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 2:43amIts because when referencing Nazi’s in Europe it is acceptable to use the European Spectrum. Only in America is the Right for lower government, and the Left for more government. Infact, Libertarians are Classic Liberals, or European Liberals, which believe in smaller government.
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:11pmOk, expose the marxists as well. You might as well expose all socialists/totalistarianists.
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:37pm‘Zackly what I thought. Expose the Reds too. Oh wait, we don’t have, they’re all over TV, in Germany and everywhere!
Report Post »pmjr-jones
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:09pmmy priooritees are strate naw aftir watshing that video!?
Report Post »pmjr-jones
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:00pmi’m smahrter 2!?
Report Post »jokync
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:59pmThetrumpet.com has so much info on the nazis, and what is really going on in Germany right now. check it out.
Report Post »jokync
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:55pmIf you want to find out more about what is really going on in Germany right now go to THETRUMPET.COM. amazing article
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:00pmagreed.
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:46pmThay were just a little right of the commies
Report Post »but not that far
AxelPhantom
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:45pmWhen they “out” the rosters of the Communist Party USA, the Socialist Party, and the Tides foundation maybe I can believe they are out to do some good.
Report Post »xzero01
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:43pmi cant get a handle on these people one minute they are acting like sopa and shutting down websites . and ten next they doing cool things like this. i love and hate these guys
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:52pmThey are like the hot sexy Psycho girlfriend. She keys your car, boils your pet, but she also curls your toes.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:39pmThe shock of this list was Biden and Obama was on the list.
When asked about it, Obama said, “Hey, Adolph was just a guy on my block, I didn’t know”
Biden just said, “Hey, C’mon Man, who doesn’t hate Jews?”.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:44pmPlus Biden had his fingers tapping THE BUTTON on Obama’s desk.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:50pmSnow, Biden already explained that he thought that button was to order pizza, and he appologized to Japan for the mistake. You didn’t really think that was a tsunami and melt down did you?
Report Post »valarie
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:38pmSorry but I saw this coming a year ago. They would start demonizing Western Europeans and Scandinavians so that they could say “LOOK! THEY ARE TERRORISTS, TOO!” Utter Bullspit.
Report Post »Dumbwhiteguy
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:35pmProbably one of george soros’s science fair projects. Blood drinkers unit.
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:14pmWill Anonymous turn on OWS, anarchists, communists, and socialists as well? Where’s their funding coming from? Chaos seems to be Anonymous’ end game.
Report Post »Lemuel Haynes
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:41pmNeo-Nazis are socialists. Nazi is short for the National Socialist German Workers Party. When they say the Nazi’s are the far right that is only true in Europe. In Europe the socialists are the right, the communists are the left. In America the conservatives are the right, the proponents of big government are the left. Notice, in the US the socialists and communists are usually working together. Look at OWS.
Report Post »southernloyalty
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:41pmI think you hit it right there. We know who they work for. I just want to know when anonymous is going to hack in and expose Obama’s resume.
Report Post »Publius Novus
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:07pmI say….is their spokesman Stephen Hawking?
Report Post »Herot
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:24pmif the TheBlaze.com had a “like” button for comments I would like this comment. Unfortunately this will have to do “like”
Report Post »Pigpen
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:06pmWay to go, “Anonymous”, you just singlehandedly generated sympathy worldwide for the neo-nazi movement. How? Well guess what? YOU HACKERS are more frightening to John Q. Public than the neo-nazis are. When was the last time I saw a neo-nazi? Well about about thirty years ago on television. When was the last time my anti-virus software told me I had to reboot because one of you little pencil ****** hackers wrote a computer virus? Well, that was just last night!
Report Post »Publius Novus
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:03pmIs their spokesman Steven Hawking?
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