They targeted the site of the US Justice Department's
Sentencing Commission, and say they are prepared to release the information they stole.
According to the hackers, the act was in retaliation for the Department's treatment of Aaron Swartz.
Swartz committed suicide on January 11, while facing prosecution for stealing over four million articles from JSTOR, an online archive and journal distribution service.
He was facing up to thirty-one years in jail and fines of up to one million dollars.
The FBI is investigating the attack, but was completely unable to stop it from happening.
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