- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jun 27, 2012 19:10 JST
- Tags: 4chan, Copyright, Crime, Hacking, Ibaraki, Internet, Law, Moe, Politics

The campaign of Anonymous to free Japan from the bondage of unduly harsh copyright law has got off to a less than auspicious start after the group bumblingly hacked the wrong site, thinking it was humiliating the central government by defacing their site only to find it had instead ruined the site of a river works office in Ibaraki.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jun 27, 2012 00:53 JST
- Tags: 4chan, Copyright, Crime, DPJ, Hacking, Internet, Law, LDP, Music, P2P, Politics

Hacker collective Anonymous has declared open season on the Japanese government for its passage of a draconian ban on illegal downloads and ripping, briefly taking down several government websites in a series of cyber-attacks.
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A Japanese-developed cyber-attack warning visualisation system has lately been earning massive praise for its beautiful graphics, and almost as attention again for its unmistakable similarities to a certain cyberpunk anime…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: May 18, 2012 04:03 JST
- Tags: 2ch, AT-X, Copyright, Hacking, Mass Media, Otaku, Technology, Toshiba, TV

Japan’s “B-CAS” smart card system has been completely cracked, allowing free viewing of almost all the country’s premium satellite and cable channels.
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The White House reports that South Korean accesses downed their homepage after a petition demanding the US make schools stop using the “Sea of Japan” name in their textbooks inflamed the passions of nationalists.
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An anime-involved idol and singer has been arrested for hacking her agency’s website after falling out with the management, who happened to be her ex-boyfriend.
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Bandai Visual joins the legion of companies to suffer embarrassing hacks, having been forced to take a number of its sites offline as a result.
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Top PC games developer Valve has joined Sony in being subject to a catastrophic database hack, with the security of customer credit card details and personal information stored on their Steam platform completely compromised.
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The perverted possibilities offered by Kinect are once again being explored by Japanese hackers, in this case to allow males and under-endowed females the chance to experience the thrill of owning and subsequently abusing a virtual pair of huge breasts in real time.
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Lulz Security, the group behind a score of recent high profile hacks, has claimed responsibility for an attack which took the CIA’s website down whilst releasing internal data purportedly stolen from the US Senate’s site.
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Elder Scrolls developer Bethesda is reporting an “attempted” hack has netted user info, casting further doubt on the ability or trustworthiness of game companies when it comes to securing user data.
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Codemasters have reported the personal details of “tens of thousands” of users, including the usual identity theft essentials of names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and passwords, but not payment details, have been made off with by hackers who penetrated one of its servers. It appears it took them a whole week to notice.
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