"People were really upset with him and were defacing his jersey a year ago, " he said.
"Chippy 1337" claimed responsibility for defacing the website of video game publisher Eidos in 2011.
That didn't stop Anonymous from claiming credit late Sunday for defacing several MIT websites.
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"I liken it to somebody going in and defacing a wall with a can of spray paint, " he said.
In that incident, a group of hackers quickly claimed responsibility for defacing the site, as well as major media websites.
The 24-year-old from New South Wales is accused of attacking and defacing a government website earlier this month, a police statement said.
In just the past weeks, LulzSec hacked PBS in retaliation for an unfavorable documentary on WikiLeaks, spilling employee information and defacing the site.
French police have detained a woman accused of defacing an iconic Delacroix painting, Liberty Leading The People, at a branch of the Louvre Museum.
Recently a rogue member of the group, "pwnsauce, " attacked the site of Ireland's main opposition party, Fine Gael, defacing the site with Anonymous' logo and an angry message, and disclosing contact details for 2, 000 of its visitors.
"This is first case where I've heard of someone leaking stuff to Anonymous to have a site defaced, instead of defacing it himself, " said Clifford Neuman, director of University of Southern California Center for Computer Systems Security.
"Congress wants harsh penalties doled out for these crimes because they don't want people defacing websites, but there has to be a way that we can bring the law into harmony with the realities of how people use technology today, " said Hanni Fakhoury, an attorney at the San Francisco-based nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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