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Hacker says he's behind Columbia City and KOMU hacks, not Anonymous

The Columbia Daily Tribune is now reporting that the hacker activist group Anonymous was not responsible for hacker attacks that shut down both the city’s website and KOMU’s website. 

A hacker going by the name Bitcoin Baron is now taking credit for the attack, which took down gocolumbiamo.com from Thursday until Saturday. He responded to questions from a Tribune reporter on twitter on Friday and Saturday.

The Tribune reports the hacker targeted Columbia's website after learning of a video of a February 2010 SWAT team raid of a man's home. The SWAT team found a misdemeanor amount of marijuana and shot two dogs in the home, killing one. Release of the video years ago sparked outrage and spurred changes in police policies and procedures.

Initial news reports last week said Anonymous was responsible for the hacker attack, citing an online post in the Counter Current News. The hacker was upset by this misattribution, and when KOMU reported Anonymous was responsible, he then decided to target the local television news station’s website. KOMU.com experienced intermittent outages Friday and Saturday.

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