14 DAY TRIAL // Three Greek teenagers were arrested on suspicion that they’re the ones responsible for breaching the official website of the Ministry of Justice at the beginning of February.
Aged 16, 17 and 18, the students are allegedly part of Anonymous, more precisely a collective called Greek Hacking Scene, which supports the movements of the Anonymous.
In.gr informs that the suspects’ houses were raided and computing equipment was seized, the authorities now trying to determine the identities of other hackers. The youths are accused of illegally accessing a computer system.
“What is going on in your country is unacceptable. You were chosen by your people to act on behalf of them and express their wishes, but you have derogatorily failed. You have killed the most sacred element your country had and that is democracy. Democracy was given birth in your country but you have now killed it,” the hackers said when the operations in Greece began.
Since then, a lot of government websites were hacked both by local Anonymous hackers and by some from the international scene. The sites of ELAS, the Ministry of Citizen Protection, the Greek Prime Minister, PASOK, New Democracy, the Ministry of Finance, Evangelos Venizelos, and the Greek Parliament have all fallen victim to hacking operations at some point.
In the past period, since Anonymous became more of a concept instead of a clearly defined group, the authorities managed to identify a fairly large number of hacktivists.
In January, a couple of alleged Anonymous hackers were arrested in France after being suspected of launching DDOS attacks against Electricite de France (EDF).
At the end of January, a 22-year-old student from Poland was arrested for defacing the site of the country’s prime minister as part of an anti-ACTA protest.
However, anti-ACTA protests have made an impact in Poland since it was among the first countries to take a step back and wait for the European Parliament to decide the treaty’s fate.
The EP revealed that ACTA will be debated on March 1.