Goldman Sachs, AIG, Wells Fargo, Chase, Meryl Lynch and others are targeted

Mar 1, 2013 08:04 GMT  ·  By

Anonymous hacktivists have announced the initiation of Operation Wall Street, a campaign launched in protest against the US government and several major organizations. 

“It is obvious that the DoJ and other government entities such as the SEC think that it is more important for them to regulate freedom of speech and information rather than to regulate the blatant organized crimes of the financial market,” the hackers wrote in a statement.

“They persecute people like us, Occupy, and Arron Swartz instead of the Bankers and Wall Street executives and CEOs who have robbed Americans of their hard earned tax dollars,” they noted.

“They hand out billions upon billions of dollars to people who in no way need it yet our conditions for the poor, or even the middle class, have been continually diminishing. The middle class is now almost non-existent thanks to the crimes of Goldman Sachs and other firms who have indulged in sinister and criminal practices.”

The new operation is partly sparked by the recent Bank of America related leak. The 14 GB of data published over the past few days by Anonymous shows that the financial institution has been running a project aimed at monitoring public information sources in search for potential threats.

The initiators of Operation Wall Street urge all those who want to join the campaign to release the “dox” (personal information) of CEOs and executives of companies such as Goldman Sachs, AIG, Wells Fargo, Chase, and Meryl Lynch.

“Their dox, any and all possible personal information on these people, must be released and made public and spread across the internet as much as possible. The people who have lost their homes and had their lives destroyed deserve to know who it was that did it,” the hacktivists stated.