Gawker Stops Publishing After Hacker Attack

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An affiliated group, Anonymous, gained attention last week for apparently taking down Web sites like MasterCard’s in a show of support for WikiLeaks

Why is Anonymous "affiliated"?

Flagged for being plain disinformation.

EDIT: This article reports that the crackers themselves said they are unrelated with Anonymous:

http://thenextweb.com/media/2010/12/12/gawker-media-is-compr...

EDIT2: Why the downvotes?

If you read it in context, they're saying that Anonymous is affiliated with 4chan, not with the hackers:

> The hackers suggested they had chosen Gawker out of

> spite. They said Gawker writers had been critical of the

> online message board 4chan, a chaotic group that mounts

> attacks on Web sites and individuals.

>

> An affiliated group, Anonymous, gained attention last

> week for apparently taking down Web sites like

> MasterCard’s in a show of support for WikiLeaks, the

> organization that facilitated the release of secret State

> Department cables.

This is at best unclear. It could mean affiliated to the site just mentioned in previous paragraph, 4Chan, or to the group the article is talking about, Gnosis.

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