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Thursday, May 6, 2010

Mexican financial websites - January 1998

DATE:
1998-01

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
Mexico

AFFECTED SITES:
bmv.com.mx, bital.com.mx, bancomer.com.mx, banxico.org.mx, banamex.com

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
n/a

SOURCE COUNTRY:
Organized in Italy

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
Anonymous Digital Coalition

TYPE OF ATTACK:
DDoS

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
Instructs users to go to the websites and hit reload over and over for an hour.

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Virtual sit-in protest striking Mexican financial websites on behalf of the Zapatistas.

URLS:
1. http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/anondigcoal.html


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