Anonymous delivered prior to the BART hack threat after the San Francisco Bay Area transit entity ""fired a Mubarak"." Wireless data service was killed in some stations, last week, after supervisors BART received word that protesters were planning demonstrations in the train system. These demonstrations were to protest the recent killing of a man homeless by an agent of BART and 2009 fatal shooting by another officer of BART to a non-armed passenger.
Anonymous hack today included the release of the names, passwords and other personal data stored for users of the site marketing MyBart.org. And the flight of the database. I post the link because some Boing Boing readers are no doubt regular users of the system and may want to know if their information was compromised. Infosec BART critics are asking why these data were stored in plain text format on the servers to the public in the first place.
Californiaavoid.org, a site DUI, has also been damaged (screengrab above).
Anonymous has announced plans for a new demonstration Monday at 5: 00 pm at the Civic Center in San Francisco station, as well as attacks online. Account Twitter this seems to be one of the most reliable sources for the plans. During this time, BART has called in the Federal Government.
I have read on the web of coverage: CNET, sf gate, SF examiner, CNN, Oaklandlocal.com, TheNextWeb, BayCitizen.org. San Francisco affiliate of ABC News has an interview with a person identified as anonymous member.
In the comment threads previous Boing Boing posts on disorders of BART (and by "disorders", I mean BART officers of shooting and killing two passengers), some readers asked if the entity was governmental or private. It is a point-gov, a special government agency created by the State of California.
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