Hunter Moore, former owner of "revenge porn" site IsAnyoneUp, is being targeted by notorious hacktivist collective Anonymous.

Hunter Moore
Hunter Moore is being targeted by Anonymous

Moore, who would post naked photographs of men and women alongside links to their social networking pages, is said to be working on a similar site that will match people's pictures to their home addresses.

Moore sold IsAnyoneUp to anti-bullying charity Bullyville in April 2012, saying he was not happy with what it had become. Bullyville bought the site with the intention of taking it offline.

Anonymous released a statement explaining that it has targeted Moore and "engaged Operation Hunt Hunter":

"We will protect anyone who is victimised by abuse of our internet, we will prevent the stalking, rape, and possible murders as by-product of his sites," explains Anonymous is a video available on Examiner. "Operation anti-bully. Operation hunt Hunter engaged" Anonymous added.

Mr Moore and IsAnyoneUp avoided prosecution due to a loophole in section 230 of the US Online Decency Act, which explains websites cannot be held accountable for content submitted by third-parties. The photographs on IsAnyoneUp were typically uploaded by disgruntled ex-boyfriends and girlfriends.

Retracted

Though he has since retracted the comment claiming to have been drunk, Moore told Betabeat that he was introducing mapping technology to his new site "so you can stalk people".

Anonymous has responded to the news of Moore's new site by posting his home address and the addresses of his family members online. It has also circulated a video showing pictures of Amanda Todd, a 15 year-old who committed suicide after topless photographs of her appeared online.

Ironically it was on socail sharing site 4Chan that IsAnyoneUp became popular, the same site which spawned Anonymous over five years ago.

However, Mr Moore has said that his new site has already received thousands of submissions and that he doesn't "really care" about victim's feelings. In an interview with the BBC he said:

"It's anonymous to me. I don't know the people - it's just a little picture on a screen. If you're just crying over some [picture] you sent to some boy you just met, no I'm not going to take it down, and no I don't really care."

IBTimes UK recently spoke with a member of Anonymous, who explained that the group is "bigger and stronger than ever."

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