Security News > 2011 > March > HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr Quits Due to Anonymous Attack
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/HBGary-Federal-CEO-Aaron-Barr-Quits-Due-to-Anonymous-Attack-325042/ By Fahmida Y. Rashid eWEEK.com 2011-03-01 The embattled CEO of HBGary Federal has resigned his post three weeks after Anonmyous hacked into the companyâs network and stole thousands of e-mail messages. The ease Anonymous conducted the attack left the company that provides security services to the federal government red-faced. CEO Aaron Barr told Threatpost on Feb. 28 that heâs stepping down to help the company regain its reputation and to improve his own. "[G]iven that Iâve been the focus of much bad press, I hope that, by leaving, HBGary and HBGary Federal can get away from some of that. Iâm confident theyâll be able to weather this storm," Barr told Threatpost. HBGary Federal declined comment. At least one member of Anonymous saw it as a victory. âAaron Barr has quit! Join our party on IRC,â Topiary, an Anonymous âsupporterâ posted on Twitter. âIt seems Aaronâs fate currently lies in a trash can, reminiscing of the times he thought he took down Anon,â Topiarty added, referring to a âWhere will Aaron Barr be in 6 months time?â online poll. The comments left on AnonNewsSite were far more gleeful. âAt least we destroyed him in anonymous style,â wrote one commenter. [...]