Anonymous
Decentralized hacktivist group
Follow Anonymous on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!
| March 20 2025 |
Anonymous released a video alleging that Elon Musk manipulated votes in the 2025 US election to ensure Donald Trump's victory, claiming to possess evidence of electoral tampering, though the full details remain unconfirmed due to internet censorship.
The Conspiracy Theory That Elon Musk Stole the Election Using Starlink Is Everywhere Now | WIRED
www.wired.com
Donald Trump election victory 2024: Did Elon Musk use satellites to steal US election victory from Kamala Harris? Here's what Left-wing conspiracy theorists are saying - The Economic Times
m.economictimes.com
|
| March 2025 | Anonymous launched Operation Dreadnaught, a website criticizing the Trump presidency, Republican party, MAGA movement, Trump, and Elon Musk. The website explicitly stated its mission to combat what it perceived as fascism in America, highlighting the group's ongoing political activism and opposition to specific political figures and movements. |
| March 10 2024 | Anonymous attacked Dimona nuclear plant systems, stealing and publishing over 7 gigabytes of data after issuing an ultimatum for a ceasefire to the Israeli government. |
| October 7 2023 | Anonymous targeted multiple Israeli systems including the Iron Dome missile defense system, government websites, Israeli websites, and cameras during the Israel-Palestinian War. |
| 2022 | Hacked the Russian Center for the Protection of Monuments website, uploading defacement pages with Ukrainian flag colors, Anonymous logos, and various provocative content. |
| 2022 | After the Bucha massacre, leaked personal information of 120,000 Russian soldiers in Ukraine. |
| 2022 | Hacked Russian Linux terminal and a gas control system in North Ossetia, adding hashtags like 'SlavaUkraini' and 'OpRussia'. |
| 2022 | Anonymous OpIran launched Operation White Paper in response to the 2022 COVID-19 protests in China, attacking and taking down Chinese government-controlled websites and leaking personal information of Chinese government officials. |
| 2022 | In response to the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant seizure, Anonymous defaced Rosatom's website and gained access to gigabytes of data intended for public leak. |
| 2022 | Anonymous launched cyber operations against Russia in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine, targeting state-controlled media RT and hacking Russian state TV channels to broadcast pro-Ukraine content and war footage. |
| 2022 | Anonymous reportedly hacked a yacht allegedly belonging to Vladimir Putin, changing its call sign to 'FCKPTN' and setting its destination to 'hell', and broadcasting a troll face picture through a hacked Russian military radio. |
| 2022 | Anonymous leaked 82GB of Australian police emails in protest of the country's offshore refugee detention policy. |
| October 23 2022 | The Iranian hacker group 'Black Reward' published confidential files and documents from Iran's nuclear program, claiming to have hacked 324 emails containing over 100,000 messages and 50 gigabytes of files. |
| September 2022 | Anonymous hacked Yandex Taxi, causing a traffic jam lasting up to three hours by sending dozens of cars to a single location. |
| September 23 2022 | A hacktivist named 'Edaalate Ali' hacked Iran's state TV government channel during a live broadcast and released CCTV footage of Iran's prison facilities. |
| September 18 2022 | YourAnonSpider hacked the official webpage of Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, in retaliation for the death of Mahsa Amini. This was part of Anonymous' cyber operation against the Iranian government. |
| June 1 2022 | Conclusion of the massive data breach operation by DDoSecrets, which collected hundreds of gigabytes and millions of emails from approximately 18 different Russian organizations. |
| May 13 2022 | DDoSecrets published 116,500 emails from SOCAR Energoresource, hacked by Anonymous. |
| May 12 2022 | DDoSecrets published over 7,000 emails from the Achinsk City Government, hacked by Anonymous. |
| May 11 2022 | DDoSecrets published over 466 gigabytes of emails from the Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO), hacked by Anonymous actors DepaixPorteur and B00daMooda. |
| May 9 2022 | Anonymous claimed responsibility for cyberattacks that took down RuTube. Network Battalion 65 (NB65) also hacked Russian payment processor Qiwi, exfiltrating 10.5 terabytes of data and infecting it with ransomware. |
| May 9 2022 | Anonymous claimed responsibility for taking down RuTube video-hosting website through cyberattacks on Russia's Victory Day. |
| May 5 2022 | DDoSecrets published roughly 480 gigabytes of files, emails, and disk images from CorpMSP, hacked by Anonymous-aligned NB65. |
| April 2022 | The collective reportedly breached Russian state television networks, interrupting broadcasts and replacing programming with footage showing the realities of the war in Ukraine. |
| April 25 2022 | DDoSecrets published nearly 1,100,000 emails from ALET/АЛЕТ, hacked by Anonymous. |
| April 22 2022 | DDoSecrets published 365,000 emails from Accent Capital, hacked by Anonymous. |
| April 20 2022 | DDoSecrets published two separate sets of emails from Worldwide Invest (250,000 and 426,000), hacked by Anonymous. |
| April 19 2022 | Anonymous actor DepaixPorteur hacked GUOV i GS, resulting in DDoSecrets publishing 15,600 emails. |
| April 19 2022 | DDoSecrets published 15,600 emails from GUOV i GS, hacked by Anonymous actor DepaixPorteur. |
| April 12 2022 | Anonymous leaked 446 GB of data from Russian Ministry of Culture. |
| April 7 2022 | DDoSecrets published approximately 100,000 emails from Aerogas, hacked by Anonymous. |
| April 2 2022 | DDoSecrets published approximately 200,000 emails from Capital Legal Services, hacked by Anonymous actor Wh1t3Sh4d0w. |
| March 2022 | Anonymous claimed to have hacked and leaked data from the Russian Ministry of Defense, exposing internal communications and sensitive government information as part of their ongoing cyber campaign against Russia. |
| March 25 2022 | Beginning of a large-scale data collection operation by DDoSecrets, targeting multiple Russian organizations including the Central Bank of Russia, government agencies, media companies, and private businesses, allegedly hacked by Anonymous and aligned group NB65. |
| March 10 2022 | Anonymous claimed responsibility for stealing and publishing 820 GB of documents from Roskomnadzor, revealing a new online surveillance system tracking anti-war sentiment and threats to Russian stability. |
| March 7 2022 | Anonymous actors DepaixPorteur and TheWarriorPoetz hacked 400 Russian surveillance cameras and broadcast them on a website, calling the operation 'Russian Camera Dump'. |
| February 2022 | After Russia's recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, Anonymous conducts a hack on a Russian Modbus device, specifically a Schneider Electric Modicon M251 logic controller, which they announce on a hacked Chinese cultural website. |
| February 25 2022 | Leaked 200 GB of emails from Belarusian weapons manufacturer Tetraedr, exposing logistical support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. |
| 2021 | Anonymous's Brazilian branch hacked the website of Brumadinho City Hall, leaving a video to commemorate the dam disaster of 25 January 2019 which resulted in 270 fatalities, drawing attention to the environmental and human tragedy. |
| November 2021 | Anonymous begins a hacking campaign called 'Operation Samantha Smith', targeting websites of the United Nations, Polar Research Institute of China, Convention on Biological Diversity, and various Chinese government websites to propagate peace plans for the Donbas conflict. |
| October 4 2021 | Anonymous published additional disk images and leaked documents from the Republican Party of Texas. |
| September 29 2021 | Anonymous released another data leak, publishing bootable disk images of Epik's servers. |
| September 13 2021 | Anonymous released a massive data leak of 180 gigabytes from Epik, a domain registrar known for hosting far-right websites, exposing domain purchase details, account credentials, payment history, and employee emails. |
| September 11 2021 | Anonymous hacked the website of the Republican Party of Texas, replacing it with text about their operation, an invitation to join Operation Jane, and a Planned Parenthood donation link. |
| September 3 2021 | Anonymous launched 'Operation Jane', a campaign aimed at disrupting efforts to enforce the Texas Heartbeat Act by overwhelming investigational resources of anti-abortion 'whistleblower' sites. |
| 2020 | Anonymous launched cyber-attacks against the Nigerian government in support of the #EndSARS movement, targeting websites of EFCC, INEC, and other government and bank websites using DDoS attacks. |
| November 20 2020 | Anonymous hacked the Uganda Police website in response to violent protests and crackdowns against protesters supporting presidential candidate Bobi Wine. The hack took the website offline for several days, with Anonymous highlighting the police's alleged actions of murdering 28 people, arresting 577, and injuring dozens during protests challenging President Yoweri Museveni's long-standing rule. |
| June 19 2020 | Anonymous published BlueLeaks, a massive 269.21 GB data leak of internal U.S. law enforcement information spanning from 1996 to 2020, obtained through a security breach of Netsential, a web developer for law enforcement fusion centers. |
| May 28 2020 | Anonymous released a video on Facebook targeting the Minneapolis Police Department, threatening to expose their crimes in response to the murder of George Floyd. |
| May 28 2020 | A Filipino Anonymous group hacked the PLDT customer service Twitter account as a protest against poor internet service. They changed the profile name to 'PLDT Doesn't Care' and posted a message highlighting the importance of internet connectivity during the pandemic, using the group's signature declarative statements about their collective identity and purpose. |
|
We are only showing the most recent entries for this topic. |
|
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Anonymous and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Timeline of events associated with Anonymous & Anonymous (hacker group), which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.