Anonymous Quebec

Profile narrative

Anonymous Quebec, also known as QuebecAnon, is a regional branch of the global hacktivist collective Anonymous that operates from Canada. The group first came to public attention in April 2015 when it claimed responsibility for taking down the Montreal Police Service website and the associated police brotherhood site. According to the group's own tweets, the action was motivated by allegations of police brutality during a student demonstration against austerity measures. Anonymous Quebec stated that it would continue to target the Montreal police even after the site was restored and threatened to ruin the life of an officer seen using pepper spray on protesters.

In November 2014 the same branch, or a closely affiliated Anonymous cell, was reported to have disrupted the official websites of Ottawa city, the Canadian Supreme Court and the Ottawa police service. Those actions were described as a response to the arrest of a sixteen‑year‑old accused of using social media to spread a terrorism hoax. The group's activity is therefore focused on Canadian governmental and law‑enforcement online presences, with the apparent strategic objective of causing disruption to advance protest‑related causes. No financial gain or espionage motive is mentioned in the reporting; the actions are framed as politically motivated hacktivism. The reported tactics involve gaining unauthorized access to web servers and rendering the sites unavailable, which is consistent with a denial‑of‑service or defacement approach, although specific malware families or exploit tools are not disclosed in the sources. Attribution remains limited to the claim of affiliation with the broader Anonymous movement, with no evidence of state sponsorship or ties to organized criminal syndicates. The two highlighted campaigns—the Montreal police takedown in 2015 and the Ottawa‑area government site disruptions in 2014—represent the most concrete examples of the group's publicly reported operations.

Incidents

Attributed incidents are available to members.