The State of Michigan has stepped up its cyber security alert level, and the Michigan State Police are investigating, after the activist hacker group, Anonymous, launched a Flint operation and called for Gov. Rick Snyder to be charged with "voluntary or involuntary manslaughter," according to postings on the Internet and social media. The Flint water crisis is the reason for the reaction for Anonymous, and they typically incorporate tactics to knock websites offline.

State on high cyber alert after Anonymous threat