During the Umbrella Revolution, the Facebook page Anonymous Asia that launched internet attacks against the Hong Kong government and pro-establishment parties' websites, and thus touted by netizens as a hero, has begun releasing smear attacks on Civic Passion and opinions expressed in Passion Times. On 4th February 2015, it declared war on the Passion Times website.
On 4th February 2015 at 10:00 pm, Anonymous Asia released a status in its Facebook page stating that "No one has to be held accountable for the actions, but now someone wants to escalate. It seems that the war is going to take some time." In the status it has included the domain address of the Passion Times website.
After Anonymous Asia had "declared war" on their Facebook page against Passion Times, they announced the tool with which they would attack the Passion Times website with their Twitter account in the name of "hkindigenous - Dev by T", "Hong Kong Indigenous" being the name of a newly founded activist group advocating the empowerment of Hongkongers in local Hong Kong politics.
The tool that Anonymous Asia claims to be using pretended to attack the Hong Kong Police Department's website, but in fact the target was Passion Time's website, as is clearly shown in their program codes, and corroborates with the server logs examined by our technicians.
This tool simply uses Javascript to make repeated HTTP requests at the client side's browser, without any attempt to fake its pathways. Using this tool to conduct attacks reveals the attackers' own IP addresses, and, according to industry insiders, is equivalent to using automated F5 reloads as the means of attack, which requires the use of tens of thousands of computers - an antiquated DDoS method.
Anonymous Asia has revealed details of an operation planned by several activists in Sheung Shui to set fire on a warehouse used for storing goods for the mainlanders. As a result, this led to the arrest of three activists. One of the activists is just nineteen years old.
Information released by Anonymous Asia was used by the Hong Kong police and this was confirmed by the Hong Kong police. Because of this, Anonymous Asia has been condemned by netizens as traitor and, upon a background check of Anonymous Asia through its Facebook page, it has been revealed that Tommy Chan, the administrator of the page, is the brother of a volunteer at the Occupy Central Secretariat.
As Google Search shows, another website related to Anonymous Asia that is named "Dev by T" is also operated by Tommy Chan, which corroborates with claims by some netizens that Tommy Chan is the man behind Anonymous Asia.