Anonymous hacks lawyers' site, posts documents on Iraq massacre

Hacktivists struck anew over the weekend, hacking into the site of a law firm representing a US Marine linked to the shooting of 24 Iraqi civilians in 2005. Anonymous also defaced the website of law firm Puckett & Faraj, which represented Marine Sgt. Frank Wuterich, according to a report on tech site Mashable. Wuterich had led a group of Marines in shooting 24 Iraqi civilians in 2005. The murder charges against him were dropped as part of an agreement where Wuterich pleaded guilty to one count of negligent dereliction of duty and would be demoted to private and take a pay cut. Mashable said a message left on the site referred to Wuterich as a “scumbag” while lionizing Bradley Manning, the US Army solider who is accused of leaking US diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks. “As part of our ongoing efforts to expose the corruption of the court systems and the brutality of US imperialism, we want to bring attention to USMC SSgt Frank Wuterich who along with his squad murdered dozens of unarmed civilians during the Iraqi Occupation,” Mashable quoted the group's post as saying. “We went ahead and fired off some shots of our own – at the servers and personal email accounts of Puckett & Faraj. We defaced their website and dumped nearly 3GB of private email messages belonging to Neal Puckett and Haytham Faraj,” it added. Mashable said the Puckettfaraj.com hack occurred hours after Anonymous leaked a recorded phone conversation between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Scotland Yard, in which agents were discussing a cybercrime case. — LBG, GMA News