The 2011 Pwnie Nominee For Epic 0wnage

Anonymous for hacking HBGary Federal

If you have a externally-facing crappy custom CMS where you use the same password as your Google Apps administrator account, you probably don’t want to go picking fights with any one hacker, let alone an angry swarm of them. As it turns out, HBGary Federal did just that, and Anonymous delivered exactly 1.21 giga-owws to them.