Informant Says Hacks, Threats Followed Release Of Occupy Wall Street E-Mail

snoopy · Oct 19, 2011

Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Informant Says Hacks, Threats Followed Release Of Occupy Wall Street E-Mail

Thomas Ryan, the independent security consultant who released a trove of e-mail communications from the Occupy Wall Street protesters, said he has been the target of numerous hacks and has received death threats after revealing information on the protestors plans to authorities.

In a conversation with Threatpost on Monday, Ryan, who is a managing partner at the New York-based security consultancy Provide Security, said that he has been forced to delete his social media accounts to fend of attempts by hackers to compromise them, and faced attacks and threats of violence from those sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement and the group.

Ryan alleges that Anonymous, the amorphous hacking collective linked to attacks on Sony, the security firm HBGary and others, is fomenting the Occupy Wall Street protests, not merely defending them. "What needs to be brought to peoples attention is that this isn't about politics. Its a social game," said Ryan. Anonymous, he claims, is acting from behind the scenes, and is using "social media, social engineering and lots of counter intelligence" to further the protests and garner them attention.
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