Anonymous CSIS document leak probed by RCMP, CSE

Hacker group wants police to investigate fatal RCMP shooting of 1 of its members, James McIntyre

CBC News, July 28, 2015

RCMP and Canada’s electronic spy agency are investigating the leak of a secret government document dealing with CSIS, Canada’s main spy agency, CBC News has confirmed.

Cybercrime investigators with the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) are looking into how the online international activist group Anonymous obtained the classified document and then leaked it to the media.

B.C. man fatally shot by RCMP identified, Anonymous vows revenge

Graphic: Anonymous First Nations/Native Americans Facebook page.

The Globe and Mail, July 20, 2015

A man whose death in a police shooting in northern British Columbia has prompted threats of retaliation from the online hacktivist group Anonymous has been identified.

The provincial coroners’ service says James Daniel McIntyre, a 48-year-old resident of Dawson Creek, B.C., was killed last Thursday evening. McIntyre was shot after he was confronted by RCMP officers outside an information session related to the Site C hydroelectric dam.

People claiming to be part of Anonymous said over the weekend that the victim was a member of a First Nations cell of Anonymous who was wearing a Guy Fawkes mask.

Anonymous claims attack on RCMP websites in response to Dawson Creek shooting

CTV News, July 19, 2015

The hacktivist group Anonymous says it took down the RCMP’s national website Sunday as part of a campaign to avenge a fallen “comrade,” who died in a police-involved shooting in Dawson Creek, B.C. this week.

Members of the group have claimed responsibility for a series of cyberattacks against RCMP websites on Sunday, while also threatening to reveal the identity of the RCMP officer involved in the fatal shooting.