FBI Targets 12 In Koch Industries Online Assault

Source: The Smoking Gun

JULY 26--As part of its multi-front assault on “Anonymous,” the FBI has identified 12 “targets” it alleges participated in coordinated online assaults earlier this year against business web sites operated by Koch Industries, the Kansas-based conglomerate owned by billionaire brothers--and leading Republican benefactors--Charles and David Koch, The Smoking Gun has learned.

Details of the ongoing criminal investigation are contained in a confidential FBI affidavit obtained by TSG. That document, excerpted here, includes the names, addresses, and IP numbers of a dozen U.S. residents who are subjects of the federal probe of a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Koch Industries web sites in February and March.

FBI agents last week raided the homes of individuals suspected of engaging in the Koch Industries DDoS campaign. The bureau’s target list appears to be a mix of actual DDoS participants as well as individuals whose names appear on the accounts from which attacks were launched.

So while the list includes the names of a college student studying computer science and a systems administrator/blogger who has written negatively about the Koch brothers's views on global warming, other targets appear to be the parents or relatives of DDoS participants, like the Ohio university administrator with two sons or the 51-year-old Iowa woman who works as a project manager for an insurance company or the 83-year-old Florida grandmother. Perhaps some targets simply never bothered to password protect their wireless Internet router, in the process giving others free access to their IP address.

Read more: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/koch-industries-ddos-attack-875410

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They are part of the private security enforcement arm of the ultra-rich. After all, it's not a crime to BUY whatever public policy you want if you're rich enough to afford a few congress persons and governors-- it's only a crime to expose them to some sunlight once in a while.

yes our Justice Department is the employees of Corporations now

They are all fascist thugs, and Holder is a fucking piece o' shit.

One of my children wanted to serve. I'm so glad she didn't.

investigating the Kochs.

...into the World Trade Centers, the Pentagon, and some field in Pennsylvania.

But, man!!!, they're making up for it now!!! :woohoo:

now is not the time to lay blame or point fingers.