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November 19th, 2012, 07:50 GMT · By

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Twitter Account of Torrent Sites Hacker Taken Over by Anonymous

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It appears that the actions of Zeiko Anonymous, the hacker responsible for taking down numerous BitTorrent websites with the aid of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, haven’t gone unnoticed. The hacktivists behind AnonymousIRC have taken over his Twitter account.

“ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HACKED BY (@AnonymousIRC). Never pretend to be who you are not. We never forgive, We never forget, Expect us,” reads a message posted on Zeiko Anonymous’ Twitter account.

The account appears to have been hijacked on November 17 and there hasn’t been any activity on it since.

Zeiko is responsible for taking down websites such as What.cd, The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, BitSnoop, Fenopy, IPTorrents, PassThePopcorn.me, Broadcasthe.net, HDBits, and others.

After he launched the attacks, many Anonymous hackers have threatened him. It appears that their threats have materialized.

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Comment #1 by: alexanderlecard on 19 Nov 2012, 18:29 UTC reply to this comment

Ive openly gave my i.p. for these idiots to hack me, they cant, bunch of script kiddies. period.ddos and scripts don't make you a hacker.it makes you lazy with easy aims and easy results for bragging. stop giving theses wanna be news coverage.

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