Merkel’s Visit to Greece Sparks Fury of Anonymous, Government Sites Attacked

Anonymous has joined the protests and released a video statement to reveal support for the people of Greece.



 “We are watching events in Greece and we are really overwhelmed. 4,000 suicides, 2 million unemployed, 500,000 homeless, hospitals without the necessary materials, salaries and pensions at risk of hunger and we can go one,” the hacktivists stated.

“And the only thing to you do is indifference. Challenging your people by inviting Merkel, right now it in collaboration with your Greeks arrived on the verge of destitution.

You should be ashamed! Threaten your people with security measures only fit keeper status.”

They threatened that this indifference and Angela Merkel’s visit will not be tolerated, and announced the start of Operation Greece.

Shortly after the statement was released, hacktivists started launching distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against government websites.

The sites owned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (mga.gr), the presidency (presidency.gr), the Hellenic Police (hellenicpolice.gr), the government (government.gov.gr) and ones owned by politicians were all disrupted at some point, being temporarily inaccessible to visitors.

At the time when this article was published, most of the sites seemed to be running properly, except for government.gov.gr, which was still unreachable.

Here is the video statement released by Anonymous to announce the start of Operation Greece:

Anonymous Hackers- #0peration Greece

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