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Another Anonymous Year: How the World's Most Notorious Hackers Spent 2015

A timeline detailing the unpredictable adventures of everyone's favorite/least favorite hacktivists.

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Anonymous affiliated hackers have been busy this year. The internet’s least organized organization has been trying to fight a terrorist organization while also spotlighting human rights violations worldwide, and afflicting the hell out of the comfortable. It’s a lot to do. Anonymous has been Ghostbining, DDoSing, trolling, leaking, and hacking. They’ve given bloggers day (and night) jobs. And they’ve done all that while hiding under layers and layers of security and Guy Fawkes masks.

Whatever else Anonymous may be, the hacktivist organization is definitely ambitious. Here’s what they accomplished and failed to accomplish in 2015.