The hacked Web site for the Central Business District in Chengdu, China.
(Credit: Screenshot by Steven Musil/CNET)
Anonymous has recently turned its attention to the human rights struggle in China, hacking and defacing hundreds of government and commercial Web sites in that country.
The online hactivist group claims to have compromised more than 500 Web sites over the past couple of days, defacing them with messages claiming responsibility for the breach while The Who's "Baba O'Riley" plays in the background. (A complete list of the Web sites Anonymous claims to have hacked.)
The group posted the following message -- still visible at the time of this publishing -- predicting the downfall of the Chinese government, to the Central Business District in Chengdu
Dear Chinese government, you are not infallible, today websites are hacked, tomorrow it will be your vile regime that will fall. So expect us because we do not forgive, never. What you are doing today to your Great People, tomorrow will be inflicted to you. With no mercy.
The message then addresses the people of China, saying: "Each of you suffers from the tyranny of that regime which knows nothing about you. We are with you. With you here and now. But also tomorrow and the coming days so promising for your freedom. We will never give up. Don't loose [sic] hope, the revolution begins in the heart."
While some hacker sites list five government Web sites as being hacked, it appears that none of the central government Web sites were compromised.
The defacements appear to have begun earlier this week after Anonymous Chinaissued an invitation on Twitter to "Chinese hackers, programmers, etc and hackers all over the world...to be part of Anonymous
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