Security News > 2021 > June > “Face of Anonymous” suspect deported from Mexico to face US hacking charges
Media in the San Francisco area are reporting the arrest of a notorious former resident who allegedly skipped bail on hacking charges.
Anonymous is perhaps best described as "a hacking group that wasn't" - a moniker that could be, and was, claimed by almost anyone with an internet axe to grind.
High-profile hacking activities attributed to Anonymous over the years, or claimed under its ambit, have included anti-Scientology protests and takedowns in the late 2000s; a takedown of PayPal in 2010 after the payment company suspended donations to Julian Assange and Wikileaks; and government website takedowns during the so-called "Arab Spring" of 2011.
Recent internet attacks claimed by Anons apparently include: a takedown of the Atlanta Police Department website after the US police shooting of Raynard Brooks in early 2020; the defacement of the UN website in 2020 to add a webpage for Taiwan, which does not have a seat in the UN; and a May 2020 "Warning" to the Minneapolis Police Department after the killing of George Floyd.
Christopher Doyon, who certainly didn't keep his face anonymous for The Face of Anonymous documentary, apparently appeared in court in California in early 2012, charged with orchestating a denial-of-service attack in 2011 against the municipality of Santa Cruz, a coastal city in Northern California not far from the San Francisco Bay Area.
Doyon is now back in the US, arrested in Mexico City at the end of last week and extradited to the US on 12 June 2021.