According to the activists, the new kernel vulnerability has already been used to hack and deface the website of the ACAPOR, a Portuguese anti-piracy agency that had become a target of the group's Operation Payback campaign in which the group had launched coordinated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against several copyright enforcement agencies.
The activists said that they had stolen thousands of emails in the attack and posted them to torrent site The Pirate Bay. A web redirect was also inserted on the ACAPOR website to point visitors to The Pirate Bay.
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