According to this link, Anonymous may be trying to target SCADA.
SCADA is the control software for environmental controls, such as AC and heating, factory machinery, dams, power plants and a host of other things we take for granted will operate correctly.
An attack on SCADA could mean more than a data breach, it could mean injury or death. It is not too difficult to envision a scenario where, for instance, a sewage treatment plant is compromised such that potable water is contaminated. Or where a generator is damaged through controls.
In other words, if a SCADA system is compromised by Anonymous, the group will have graduated from being a nuisance to becoming life-threatening. What is worrisome is that Anonymous typically compromises systems by "low hanging fruit"--unpatched systems, default, shared or easily guessed passwords or other vectors which are not too difficult to use.
I am afraid we live in interesting times.
UPDATE: Dan Kaplan pushes back http://goo.gl/5slJj
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