![]() The members identified themselves as part of the hacking group "Anonymous" and carried out the attacks from approximately September 2010 to January 2011. Operation Payback was a coordinated cyber attack carried about by a group of computer scientists and hackers. With the failed attempt, Anonymous focused instead on The attack barely made any impact on the, which makes sense considering how big Amazon's network infrastructure is. Anonymous started attacking the company's website at 11am EST, but upon realizing how little impact they were doing, stopped the attack. ![]() However, the attack appeared to have failed. One company that was targeted during this campaign was Amazon, since it was one of the companies that attempted to censor Wikileaks. The most notable usage of the LOIC client was by hacktivist group Anonymous during Operation Payback in September of 2010. History of Use Anonymous, Project Chanology 3 Denial of Service/Distributed Denial of Service.
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