It's hard to state if [Aaron Barr], at that point CEO of programming security organization HBGary Federal, was in his correct personality when he focused on the famous hacking bunch known as Anonymous. He was endeavoring to correspond to Facebook and IRC action to uncover the characters of the gathering's key figures. In the shadowy universe of dark cap hacking, getting your actual personality uncovered is known as getting doxed, and is something each programmer fears. Following such a notable gathering would make sure to get his battling organization some required reputation. It would likewise have the most grievous reaction of getting the hacking bunches consideration too.

Maybe [Aaron Barr] anticipated that Anonymous would come after him… possibly he even respected the showdown. All things considered, he was a 'specialist' in programming security. He ran his own security organization. His CTO [Greg Hoglund] composed a book about rootkits and kept up the site rootkits.com that gloated more than 80 thousand enrolled clients. Most likely he could deal with a couple of irritating assaults from a few young content kiddies playing on their parent's PC. It would have been unthinkable for him to know how wrong he was.

It grasped the bunch of programmers under 24 hours to take finish control over the HBGary Federal site and databases. They likewise seized [Barr's] Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo and even his World of Warcraft account. They supplanted the HBGary Federal landing page with this statement – with a connection to a deluge record containing nearly 50,000 messages resting forebodingly at the base. In the meantime, they could utilize social building methods to SSH into the rootkit.com site and erase its whole substance.