10 Times Anonymous Hackers Did Good

 with all the chaos that's taking over  the world at the moment one organization  in particular has become the trendy  topic and planet Earth it's anonymous  and while many people know them from  their past stunts do you understand the  extent of their previous hacks and deeds  for the good of humanity welcome to our  channel and today we'll be taking a look  at ten times the Anonymous hackers did  good don't forget to subscribe to our  Channel and to turn notifications on for  more great content like today without  further adieu let's begin with our  countdown first place Binay Gael website  we're kicking off our countdown with the  Binay Gael website take down the website  for the irish political party a  center-right party was hacked by  anonymous during the 2011 general  election campaign everything began with  a cryptic message as everything  regarding anonymous does a message  posted by the hackers claimed they were  part of anonymous a group that's carried  out attacks against sites perceived to  be anti wiki links beam a gal said the  site had been professionally hacked  formed those affected that their  personal details had been compromised  the party had been told that the  personal data had been destroyed by the  hackers the site was set up to pull the  nation for their thoughts on how to  improve Ireland the attack on it took  place late on 9 January the site was  replaced with the page showing the  anonymous logo along with the words  nothing is safe you put your faith in  this political party and they take no  measures to protect you they offer you  free speech yet they censor your voice  wake up owned by rape space and  Palladium this one was not their  earliest act but one of the most  notorious ones  second place Operation Payback  second place of our list being an attack  led by anonymous against opponents of  Internet copyright infringement  it began in 2010 when several Bollywood  companies hired third-party application  Isle of service also known as DDoS  attacks on websites that did not respond  to notices asking them to remove  copyright infringing content from their  servers anonymous responded by  initiating Operation Payback  originally attempting to use a DDoS  attack to take down a flick software  another round of attacks against anti  copyright infringement organizations  followed with their main victims  including the Motion Picture Association  of America the International Federation  of the Phonographic Industry The  Recording Industry Association of  America the British Phonographic  Industry and various law firm step  prosecuted copyright infringement third  place operation didgeridoo    next up we have Operation didgeridoo  this happened back in 2009 though the  reasons why anonymous hacked the  Australian government were deeply rooted  in 2007 Steven Michael Conroy the  Minister for broadband communications  and digital economy for Australia went  on a crusade to censor the internet to  block malicious content which included  child pornography but wound up  encompassing any website that displayed  sex drugs or violence fourth-place  exposing the Chinese government  Anonymous is not known only for hacking  websites and stealing data but also for  using that same data to expose guilty  individuals of their crimes and  involvement in attacks they once exposed  the involvement of the Chinese military  in a string of attacks on American  companies organizations and government  agencies in 2011 American security  researchers and government officials  have long claimed that China was behind  the 2011 cyber attacks on the US but  there was no evidence to back up the  claim China vehemently denied the  allegation to do - said lack of proof  despite this anonymous provided  incriminating evidence linking the  Chinese to the attack making headlines  across the world and humiliating the  Chinese government so what do you think  of our picks so far let us know in the  comments fifth place fighting the  tyranny in Iran anonymous previously  lent a digital hand in the fight against  Mahmud Ahmadinejad re-election in 2009  when the Iranian government attacked  online opposition activities by blocking  their websites and disrupting their  mobile phone connections during the  following civil uprising anonymous went  ahead and provided much-needed advice on  how Iranian citizens could get around  the online censorship and access the  Internet unrestricted sixth-place  Anonymous fought against child  pornography  child to nog Rafi is one of the most  horrifying crimes anyone can commit and  Anonymous is very much aware of this  fact in December 2007 anonymous helped  in the arrest of Chris pork and an  Internet predator and pedophile pork  hands arrest was made possible by  members of anonymous posing as children  online to collect evidence against child  molesters after collecting various logs  of overtly sexual chats and pictures  anonymous turned the evidence over to  law enforcement agent  they also hacked the child pornography  site known as Lolita city where  pedophiles can view innocent children  being abused and proceeded to publish  15-hundred of the people who use the  site seventh place LGBTQ rights movement  in Africa Anonymous is a big fan for all  social causes and the LGBTQ rights  movement is a big one for them knowing  that several countries in the Middle  East and Africa made laws against LGBT  people with Uganda being the worst of  them all by nearly passing the law we're  all gay people could be executed they  didn't step down the group hacked the  Ugandan prime minister's website in  retaliation for the government stance  against the LGBT community  anonymous also cautioned the government  that it would not stand by and do  nothing while Uganda victimizes and  abuses its LGBT citizens the group  threatened to continue to target Ugandan  government websites and communication  until the country treated its LGBT  community with the dignity and respect  it deserves as they previously have  anonymous humiliated the Ugandan  government so they still passed the kill  the gays bill in 2014 however anonymous  didn't stay down either and also  attacked many other African governments  such as the Nigerian government in 2013  eighth place fighting the corruption  against the Nigerian government never a  group to stay down when corruption is  raging anonymous declared a cyber war  against the Nigerian government in 2016  in an online post the group called upon  its members to take out the websites of  Nigeria's ministries of Finance foreign  affairs and justice as well as its  Federal Capital Territory administration  in a matter of hours those agencies  websites worked down the reason for this  was the massive corruption in which  government officials part took ends on  top of social issues such as  unemployment illiteracy and poor health  care the group also promised more  attacks if the government didn't address  this issue as soon as possible  9th place Tunisian Revolution and  operation Egypt during the Tunisian  Revolution the Tunisian internet agency  proceeded to modify web pages and delete  social media accounts as a forum to  control the masses they also use their  information from social media to track  them down and arrest them  however Anonymous intervened by hacking  the websites of the Tunisian president  and prime minister furthermore they  posted article tutorials online with the  aim of teaching the Tunisian citizenry  how to overcome government censorship on  top of that they launched operation  Egypt as a response to the Internet  censorship during the country's  revolution they sent thousands of faxes  into Egypt to keep the citizens informed  of their government's actions when  Internet communication became difficult  due to the intensifying government  crackdown anonymous also attacked  Egyptian government websites taking down  several of them tenth place Westboro  Baptist Church attack  many people are not really happy with  the Westboro Baptist Church and some of  their most ludicrous statements and  Anonymous has gotten fed up with some of  their most disgusting cats On February  16 2011 anonymous wrote an open letter  to the Westboro Baptist Church stating  cease and desist your protest campaign  in the year 2011 closure public websites  should you ignore this warning the  propaganda and detestable doctrine that  you promote will be eradicated the  damaging curb will be irreversible and  neither your institution nor your  congregation will ever be able to fully  recover  always conceded the Westboro Baptist  Church replied by telling them to bring  it on and that they were a puddle of  pimple-faced nerds in all their Westboro  Baptist Church fashion anonymous  suggested tactics for those who wish to  attack Westboro nonetheless avoiding  DDoS in favor of sending prostitutes  preferably mail and in general to rape  their asses in the most unpredictable  ways possible a hacktivists named jester  brought down the Westboro Baptist Church  website as payback for their  inflammatory speeches so what do you  think of our countdown do you think the  Anonymous group has done everything for  the greater good let us know in the  comments also don't forget to leave a  like share this article with your friends  and also subscribe to our channel for  more great content like today we hope  you enjoyed our article and we'll see you  next time