"#WBC was more leet than #HBGary," the Twitter message noted. "It took #Anonymous a 0day to get in their network, not some public SQL."

Following this morning's attacks, the church has taken all of its sites offline and is working on securing them, Phelps-Roper said.

Anonymous has also been in the news quite a bit for coordinating DDoS attacks in connection with WikiLeaks disclosures and recent civil unrest in Egypt and elsewhere.

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