Hacker group Anonymous claims attack on Mercer firm

The international computer hacker network that calls itself Anonymous claimed Tuesday to have shut down the website of a Mercer County company that has been supplying the tear gas used by Egyptian forces to quell protests in that country.


The hackers, who say they struck in honor of the anniversary of the uprising in Bahrain on Feb. 14, 2011, the first of the "Arab spring" revolutions across the Middle East, said they wiped out the company's Web servers and released names, email passwords and identifying information of its employees.