A hacker that goes by the name of Anonymous Saint, or Nyre, has taken credit for the attack that disrupted the activity of The Pirate Bay. He claims he is “Anonymous, but no longer supports Anonymous.”
“You must be wondering why did I attacked The Pirate Bay. I am Nyre. I am highly against Anonymous. I do not support Anonymous anymore. I sometimes help the feds,” he explained.
“The Pirate Bay was a press-release website for Anonymous, then I had a idea, why not take it down? Why not make it impossible for Anonymous? Get on your knees, Anonymous. I am a one-man army. I am not a hacker. I am a security killer,” he added.
It’s uncertain if this guy is really the one that has single-handedly managed to take down the famous torrent site, but one thing’s certain. He doesn’t like Anonymous at all.
While in his initial statement he claimed that he would try to keep The Pirate Bay down for a week, a few hours ago he changed his mind and allegedly stopped the attack, considering that he made his point.
“ThePirateBay was a main-press release point of Anonymous – Why not [upset] Anonymous when you got a chance?” he wrote a few hours ago. “Nuff’ attacking TPB, You can start sailing your ships now, Anonymous.”
As we’ve said before, we cannot verify if Nyre’s claims are true, but these days if you control a large enough botnet, there are a lot of things you can accomplish.
However, we would have expected something like a government, or the motion picture industry to be behind the attack on The Pirate Bay, not a single Anonymous-hater hacker.
In the meantime, while TPB is back online and functioning properly, another massive DDOS attack has been launched at WikiLeaks. The site has been experiencing difficulties for over 80 hours now.
