BRIEF: Hacker network Anonymous targets Pa. tear-gas maker
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[February 14, 2012]

BRIEF: Hacker network Anonymous targets Pa. tear-gas maker

Feb 14, 2012 (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Computer hackers associated with the international network Anonymous claim to have shut down the website of a Mercer County company that has been supplying the tear gas used by Egyptian forces to quell protests in that country.


The hackers, who say they struck in honor of the anniversary of the uprising in Bahrain on Feb. 14, 2011, claimed to have wiped out the company's web servers and released names and identifying information of its employees.

The Combined Systems site remained down today.


The company, which sells tear gas and other crowd-control items around the world, has been targeted before.

In December, two dozen people protested outside the company's offices in Jamestown, decrying the use of the company's tear gas by the Egyptian military and police to suppress democratic activists.

Torsten Ove: tove@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1510.

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