Red Hacker Alliance

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The Red Hacker Alliance is an informal group of Chinese hackers that at one time had over 80,000 members, making it one of the largest hacking groups in the world.[1] In December 2004, the group took down their website and became inactive until March 2005, when it regrouped and relaunched its site.[2] Computer World Australia and InformationWeek both reported that members of the Red Hacker Alliance were involved in a planned DDOS attack against CNN.com on April 19, 2008.[3] [4] CNN reported that they took preventative measures after news broke of the impending attack. [5]

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  1. ^ "'Red Hackers' back in China", Rediff.com, 2005
  2. ^ "China's anti-hacking alliance regrouped", Xinhua, March 26, 2005
  3. ^ Jongsma, Carl: "Chinese hackers poised for anti CNN attack on April 19", Computer World, 2008
  4. ^ Claburn, Thomas: "CNN Faces Cyberattack Over Tibet Coverage" InformationWeek, 2008
  5. ^ "CNN website targeted", April 18, 2008