SOPA, PIPA and UFC: Hacker Group Responds to Dana White's Challenge

The legendary "hacktivist" group Anonymous has apparently retaliated in their war with the UFC and UFC president Dana White over support of the controversial SOPA and PIPA bills.

Five days ago, the UFC website was hacked for the first time. Instead of the usual articles and pictures on the website, there was only a drawing of Adolf Hitler and the "names" of the supposed hackers.

White was initially laconic about the incident until a recent interview with Ariel Helwani in which a boisterous White referred to the hackers as "terrorists" and even challenged them to attack the UFC website again.

The challenge was accepted.

The above video depicts the UFC website being hacked for a second time since five days ago (although, at the time of writing, the UFC website is fine). In addition, in the description of the video is a link that reveals personal information such as the coordinates of Dana White's house and other things White surely wouldn't want strangers to know.

But, before that even happened, Dana White and a twitter account (supposedly) representing Anonymous engaged in verbal jousting.

The Anonymous account (@YourAnonNews) tweeted White about his comments and he wasted no time, and pulled no punches, in responding.

"[A]nd yes cowards hide on the Internet! At least I'm man enough to say all my shit in public and not hide behind a screen name!!" White tweeted.

After some more back and forth, White refused to back down from claiming the group wasn't but a wretched hive of scum and villainy; naught but common terrorists.

"I love the Internet. It helped us grow our biz. Stealing is stealing! And hacking into people's shit is terrorism." he tweeted.

If nothing else, White is a courageous man to stand by his convictions, but it may not be the smartest choice. 

Anonymous has brought down bigger and more important websites in the past; if they can survive the FBI and the Department of Justice, they can survive Dana White, the UFC and Zuffa.

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