Anonymous wages war on agricultural firm Monsanto

Infamous hacktivist group Anonymous has launched yet another front in its ever expanding war on governments and organisations whose activities it doesn't agree with, this time stealing sensitive information from 2,500 employees of agricultural company Monsanto.

The group said in a post to Pastebin that it had tried various tactics over the past two months, including a distributed denial-of-service attack last month and, more recently, posting detailed information on the employees.

"Over the last two months we have pushed the exposure of hundreds of pages of articles detailing Monsanto's corrupt, unethical and downright evil business practices," read the Pastebin statement.

"We blasted their web infrastructure to s[**]t for two days straight, crippling all three of their mail servers as well as taking down their main web sites worldwide. We dropped dox on 2,500+ employees and associates, including full names, addresses, phone numbers and exactly where they work."

The hack comes just a day after US military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton was forced to admit that Anonymous had breached its own systems and posted what the hackers claim to be 90,000 emails as part its Military Meltdown Monday campaign.

"We are conducting a full review of the nature and extent of the attack," said the contractor in a statement on its site.

"At this time, we do not believe that the attack extended beyond data pertaining to a learning management system for a government agency."

Anonymous also gave details of a forthcoming "Operation Green Rights/Project Tarmaggedon" campaign against Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, Canada Oil Sands, the Royal Bank of Scotland and others.