Written by Claire Bernish at theantimedia.org
Shortly before midnight on Tuesday, Anonymous wished bad luck to befall Wall Street.
When the New York Stock Exchange experienced “technical issues” slightly less than twelve hours later, Anonymous appeared to have received its wish.
Trading abruptly halted at 11:32am on Wednesday morning due to “some technical malfunctions,” explained NYSE director of floor operations, Art Cashin. While U.S. officials claimed there were no signs of a “cyber breach” that would have caused the difficulties, the timing of the Anonymous message is . . . interesting.
Tweeted under the handle @YourAnonNews, the midnight jinx stated, “Wonder if tomorrow is going to be bad for Wall Street . . . we can only hope.”
Wonder if tomorrow is going to be bad for Wall Street…. we can only hope.
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) 8. Juli 2015
An unnamed Department of Homeland Security official told Bloomberg there were no indications of a cyberattack—so far. President Obama had received a briefing on the situation.
A statement posted to the NYSE Facebook page stated, “The issue we are experiencing is an internal technical issue and is not the result of a cyber breach. We chose to suspend trading on NYSE to avoid problems arising from our technical issue. NYSE-listed securities continue to trade unaffected on other market centers.”
Wednesday, itself, appeared to be the unfortunate subject of many such “technical difficulties.” In addition to the NYSE halt, New York City subway commuters experienced lengthy delays with trains inexplicably stalled in some stations. All United Airlines flights had to be grounded when the company’s computer system mysteriously malfunctioned. And 2,500 people in Washington, D.C. were left in the dark after a power outage—also unexplained.
Previous threats to the stock exchange by Anonymous in 2011 were more direct than Tuesday night’s gentle curse. One message issued a warning the collective would “destroy” the NYSE while another vowed to “erase” the NYSE from the internet altogether.
Officials are maintaining their denial of any cyber mischief—though they have not issued any plausible explanation, either—yet.
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So, did Anonymous finally build the ‘little black box’ that was fought over by the CIA and others in the 1990’s movie, “Sneakers”? 😉
I think maybe they didnt hit it but knew someone who was going to hit it.
Correct my brilliant lad (altand) it actually was I but they are correct since I am one of both
No I don’t think anonymous did it ..the global elite are messing with the stock exchange and caused the crash in china ..it’s part of their plan to disable us to gain controll over us
hahahahaha, big issue. Why should any anon go for Wall Street after knowing already for 40 years the true nature of Wall Street? Now watch the US zombies accusing from North Korea to Santa Claus just everybody fitting into the picture of hate and paranoia. Maybe a new enemy? How about some banana pickers from Ecuador? Anybody with knowledge on high velocity trading systems and servers may have more professional conclusions nor is it the first time that glorious gambling machinery falling into tec problems. A true anon would have left a screw driver and damaged for real, I guess. But what is a true and a fake anon? Never find out. The good point of system crash is that it doesnt really do any harm at all. Right? All is virtual play anyway, no matter how big the barking and the scandalized speeches of the representatives of a killer economy.
Those pesky banana pickers.
More likely just a test for a future red flag designed to allow the FCC to kill switch the internet, ie, “oh look haxorz have control of the stock exchange, planes, trains and my fridge thermostat we must kill the internets!”
nice one bro
Just wondering if there was an actual message or demand you were asking or if its destruction was simply to be an anarchist?
Why can’t someone delete all the digital records of everyone? And the backups. If all who can, worked together to do it, it could be done.