14 DAY TRIAL // Not everyone is thrilled about the election of Pope Francis. Anonymous hackers have initiated OpVatican, a campaign that represents a form of protest against the “oligarchs” from the Catholic Church.
“We want to clarify that here we won't attack the Catholic faith, but if to the decrepit and corrupt leaders who govern betraying their own principles that they preach and their faithful parishioners,” the hackers stated.
“For these reasons and more, Anonymous begin the Operation Vatican. We will hunt down the representatives of the faith that not lead by example, who take advantage of the privileged economic situation of the church and who mistreated and abuse of children.”
Several websites have been breached so far. The target list includes reggioemilia.cia.it, fratelliforti.it, sheepdogitalia.it, latorrelibri.it, and raer.it, all of which have been defaced.
The official site of The Church of God (thechurchofgod.org) has also been breached and information has been leaked from its databases.
The campaign doesn’t seem very well organized. First of all, the defaced websites have nothing to do with the Catholic Church. In addition, The Church of God is a US-based Holiness-Pentecostal movement, which doesn’t have anything to do with the Vatican either.