Anonymous being that they are Anonymous is hard to pin down. One might ask whether the folks behind the recent Palin email exposure are the same people behind the recent attacks against Scientology? We can never know and that is not really the most interesting question about Anonymous. They are interesting because of how they marry an audacious aesthetics to their politics (and how they mastered the art of video warfare) and how they have become a free floating form to be adopted by whoever wants to claim them.
Whatever the case, and however silly and childish their antics are or may seem, they are always entertaining and in this case, they also helped bring to the table the problems of relying on third party business for your work email.
And finally, if nothing else, we should appreciate them for they provided great fodder for what I think is a pretty genius onion article.