In the Financial Times story, Barr claims that a senior US member of Anonymous, using the online nickname Owen and living in New York, appears to be one of the group members targeted in recent FBI investigations. Additionally, he suggests that an Anonymous co-founder, who uses the nickname Q after the James Bond character, has been seeking replacements for Owen and other members who have dropped out of missions. Barr also claimed to have collected information, including the real names of the core group of Anonymous leaders, and that they would face serious legal consequences if the information was revealed to authorities.
The response, in true Anonymous fashion, was to hack into HBGarys website on Sunday and post a notice refuting Barrs claims. The notice is highly entertaining and well worth a read. They also indicated that that their confidence level was so high that they would release the information themselves.
Weve seen your internal documents, all of them, and do you know what we did? We laughed. Most of the information youve extracted is publicly available via our IRC networks, the statement reads. The personal details of Anonymous members you think youve acquired are, quite simply, nonsense. So why cant you sell this information to the FBI like you intended? Because were going to give it to them for free.
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