There's breaking news coming out of Poland. Hackers, reportedly associated with Anonymous, have been attacking Polish government websites to protest this week's scheduled signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
ACTA is an intellectual property treaty. Poland announced on January 19 that it would sign the treaty on January 26, 2012.
A Twitter account called @AnonymousWiki called for action against the Polish government.
All of this follows on the heels of SOPA protests and Anonymous attacks against US government websites due to the FBI's takedown of Megaupload.
Websites targeted by DDoS attacks include: abw.gov.pl; arimr.gov.pl; ets.gov.pl; knf.gov.pl; mf.gov.pl; mkidn.gov.pl; mzios.gov.pl; pip.gov.pl; praca.gov.pl; premier.gov.pl; stat.gov.pl; uzp.gov.pl.
Here's a screenshot of premier.gov.pl, currently down, from Google's cache:
UPDATE: Many of the sites that we blogged about are still offline after being targeted by DDoS attacks. Hackers have promised to continue until the 26th.
According to Polskie Radio: "Over a thousand people gathered in Warsaw, Tuesday evening, to oppose the anti-internet piracy ACTA agreement, which PM Tusk confirmed that Poland will sign on Thursday."
The signing is scheduled to take place in Tokyo, Japan.
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