The global hacker group known as ‘Anonymous’ originated on an online forum called 4Chan in 2003 and rallied around the idea of ‘internet freedom,’ but it’s evolved to become a movement that is now being hunted down by international law enforcement agencies, according to Thursday’s Wall Street Journal.The group is a collection of people — mostly young men — around the world who have rallied around the hacker ethic of open networks, but some of its members have started to steal information, which has alienated other members of the group, according to the account.
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