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It's Anonymous again, and this time, it says it's next target is Facebook, the largest social network on the planet.



Hacker group Anonymous has become famous over past months by successful hacking, data theft and website take-downs on many websites including PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, etc. It also successfully took down the entire Play Station Network and hacked into many law enforcement websites including the CIA and police. But this is the first time the hacker group is targeting any mainstream social networking platform.

According to its self theory, the group Anonymous performs 'ethical hacking' for the sake of humanity. For example, last time it took down a Syrian website in its message to remove the Syrian president that they say the Syrian people don't want.

Anonymous said in a video statement (only voice is heard after a fancy animation to Anonymous' logo), Facebook is selling all personal data despite any privacy settings users apply. Anything a user does on Facebook remains on Facebook forever. Even if the uploader deletes certain information, it's stored on Facebook. That said, Facebook is the biggest threat to privacy of general people, and that's why the group is going to "kill" Facebook on November 5, 2011.

The famous group of hackers called Anonymous has claimed responsibility for hacking and stealing some sensitive data from about 70 websites of law enforcement across the United States. They claimed that most of these websites were of rural law enforcement units.

Like most of the time, the group posted cached version of data they stole from different websites that included emails, credit card numbers and other information. According to news blog The Huffington Post, "Anonymous said it had stolen 10 gigabytes worth of data in retaliation for arrests of its sympathizers in the U.S. and Britain."

Police said that the data stolen by anonymous includes sensitive information such as pictures of ongoing investigation.

It's not Facebook's official announcement, but when Facebook's marketing director says so, we feel tempted to say it's said by Facebook.

Randi Zuckerberg's photo from her Facebook album [facebook.com/randi].

Named Randi Zuckerberg, the youngest billionaire's sister and Marketing Director of Facebook argues that anonymity online has to go away in order to stop cyberbullying. She says people put anonymity as their identity to talk and behave like being behind closed door. People behave much better when they use their real name.

Marie Claire magazine hosted a panel discussion on social media this Tuesday evening where Randi Zuckerberg said her thoughts on cyberbullying.