Anonymous announced the hacks on March 30 on its Twitter feed, . The hacktivist group also listed hundreds of websites it had reportedly hacked in a . Several of the hacked websites belonged to local Chinese government organizations, including lower-level government agencies in Taizhou, Zhongshan, and Jiazhou.

According to the , this sudden turn on China comes just after China's state media announced an "extensive crackdown on dozens of websites, penalizing two popular social media sites and detaining six people for spreading rumors of a coup d'état." The government reportedly on Saturday, closing 16 websites and shutting off the comment function for two microblog sites.

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