even to individuals. reporter: in just the past week the group has shut down government websites in sweden and greece, overleading them with traffic. in the u.s. they ve hacked into police websites in boston, syracuse, new york, and salt lake city. we do not forget. reporter: and the most brazen attack of all, anonymous intercepted an fbi e-mail. hello. reporter: and gained access to a phone call between the fbi and scotland yard. which it then posted online. that s fantastic. we actually do have a pending investigation looking into that compromise. reporter: and the purpose of this high-level conversation? a discussion on how to combat internet hacking. it s kind of like a one-upmanship game. they want to prove to the fbi that they re smarter, and they want to embarrass the fbi. reporter: and they ve targeted companies like visa and mastercard, taking down their websites in protest after the credit card giants stopped processing contributions to wikileaks. one of t
a word to all ou scavengers out there, be careful where you dig. a 75-year-old georgian woman managed to actually shut down the internet. i will repeat that, shut down the entire internet, the whole magilla in the country of armenia. at least it wasn t us, right? well, it could be. she apparently sliced through a key fiber optic cable while trying to steal some scrap metal. officials baffled how she was able to find and damage the cable. now grandma, get this, facing up to three years in prison for her literal and figurative internet hacking. something to think about. still ahead, for love or money. enough about all this policy nonsense, the website offering up a date to the highest bidder, mind you. an example of relationships in the tech age, or just a little digital prostitution.
50 mega bytes of e-mails. a complete 4ri69 of passwords from unnamed government agency a acquired. using a document they headlined, salary increase survey and forecast. another example, somebody from china pretended to be a correspondent for a u.s. political magazine and attached a pdf file supposed to download and give the hacker complete control of their computer. that particular attack failed. the tables indicate the hackers have the backing of the chinese government and using chinese language keyboards which are physically based in china. all of this exposing really what is sophisticated efforts, not only to block google and china, also to use it as an instrument to get into other areas. christine romans, we have had this discussion. you can replace google and internet hacking with other things about china and the world s relations to china and