Anonymous Takes Responsibility for CBS.com Hacking

The hacker collective Anonymous has struck again since taking down the Department of Justice website Thursday, briefly disabling CBS.com in further retaliation to the government shutdown of Megaupload.com.  The organization has recently taken down the websites of the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), Universal Music Group and MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) in retaliation to the action taken against the file-sharing site MegaUpload. National Journal reports on Sunday's hacking:

"Several Twitter accounts linked to Anonymous, a loosely organized collective of hackers, posted messages claiming responsibility for the hack, some of them mentioning "#OpMegaUpload," shorthand for Operation Mega Upload. At least one suggested Fox would be targeted next."

Gizmodo reports that if you went to CBS.com at the time Anonymous attacked it, there was nothing except an index page with a single file. The Hacker News reports that Anonymous also attacked websites in Brazil in protest to the forced closure of MegaUpload.  Websites of Brazil's federal district, Tangara da Serra and the site of Brazilian singer Paula Fernandes were all shutdown with the image posted of a grim-faced joker saying "If MegaUpload is down, you are down too."

Earlier in the day TheAnonMessage Youtube channel released a video entitled "Operation Sony Has Commenced." The video description read:

"ATTACK STARTS AT 1PM. We are attacking now. Expect our results in 24 hours.

Operation Sony, engaged."