NOT SUCH AN ANONYMOUS RESCUE

Posted on 03/04/2016

A few weeks ago Martin Gottesfeld, his wife and children were on a sailboat off the coast of Cuba when they encountered difficulties and issued a distress call. The call was picked up by the Disney Wonder who rescued the family and took them onboard. Gottesfeld was arrested the next day by the FBI.  Seems he was under investigation for the hacking of a hospital in 2014 carried out by the ‘Anonymous’ collective.

Anonymous is an internet gathering of activists and hactivists groups. Members are associated with stylized Guy Fawkes masks and are known as ‘anons.’In 2014 Boston Children’s Hospital accused the parents of a 16 year old patient of abuse after the girl exhibited unusual symptoms.  Her medical team was divided as to the origination of her injuries, but it was eventually determined that the girl had a rare mitochondrial disease.The hospital became a target for Anonymous with the video raid #OpJustina and the computer networks went down for a week.Gottesfeld is accused of creating and posting the video.The hospital released a statement following Gottesfeld’s arrest: “Boston Children’s Hospital is grateful to the FBI and the US Attorney’s office for investigating the cyber-attack launched on the hospital in April 2014 and for apprehending the hacker who led the attack and holding him accountable.”