back to article Epic FAIL: Anonymous didn't hack PayPal, managed to frighten Oz hippies

The smoke has cleared from Anonymous's Bonfire Night hacking spree with a denial from PayPal that it had been hacked. The payments-processing firm appeared to have been highest profile target of the hacking spree, but apparently this was an error caused by the tweeting and retweeting of an erroneous post by a cyber security …

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  1. mark 63 Silver badge

    "....by hundred of Anons outside the Houses of Parliament......"

    "Kree Love, 18, a student from South Kensington, said: "People have come to this protest because it is central and it is the best way to get our point across." "

    maybe she should have said what he hell the point was? isnt that the point of a demonstration? its in the name. bet none of em knew.

    "whadda we want"

    um.....

    "when do we want it?"

    err....

    repeat until your cause is lost

  2. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
    FAIL

    For their next trick...

    Successfully hacked 127.0.0.1....

    Meanwhile Monsieur Cameron is touring Middle Eastern dictatorships whoring British wares and he's NOT BEING HACKED AT ALL.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: For their next trick...

      It sounds like Anonymous is nothing but a pack of over rated script kiddies!!!!

  3. NukEvil
    Trollface

    Be careful...

    John Leyden is probably going to wake up one day to find that his twitter feed has been replaced by goatse and cats.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    What do hippies have to do with anything about this story?

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    SOS, DD

    Anonymous is an insignificant bunch of clowns. They can't even lie well.

  6. Anonymous John

    No! Not ZPanel!

    Er, who are they?

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "Hack the Planet (HTP)"

    Should have gone for Hack the Total Planet (HTTP). Much cooler.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Hard to get good search engine placement, though...

  8. DragonKin37
    FAIL

    Couldnt have said it better!

    "Instead of the promised pyrotechnics, #OpNov5 only delivered damp squibs, false attribution, confusion and few script-kiddies exploding unimpressive but loud bangers. Everybody involved, especially those who hyped up the non-event, should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves"

    My hats off to El Reg calling it how we all see it!

  9. Mr Young

    Anonymous?

    It's hardly Unknown Soldier territory is it?

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