Anonymous also frequently tweets the pro-ISIS accounts' IP addresses, which included users in Turkey, the United Kingdom, Iraq, Jordan, Oman and elsewhere. The Anonymous hacker, or group of hackers, claimed on June 10th to have hacked into about 1,500 pro-ISIS, or Daesh, Twitter accounts and posted pornographic material. The Twitter accounts of ISIS supporters have been hacked and their jihadist content has been replaced with gay pride slogans and images of semi-naked men. Twitter accounts belonging to supporters of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) have been hacked in the wake of the Orlando shooting, with jihadist content replaced with gay pride messages and links to gay pornography. Speaking to Newsweek, the hacker, who uses the online moniker WauchulaGhos, said: I did it for the lives lost in Orlando, ISIS. Around June 7th the was posting pornography-related images and slogans such as "I love porn" and Anonymous to pro-ISIS accounts. The hacker is reportedly part of the hacktivist collective known as Anonymous and hacked the accounts in response to the terrorist attack at a gay club in Orlando, which left 50 people dead and many more injured. Since the middle of 2015 alone, we've suspended over 125,000 accounts for threatening or promoting terrorist acts, primarily related to ISIS."Īnonymous hacker been hacking pro-Islamic State accounts since at least March 2016, but possibly earlier.
"We condemn the use of Twitter to promote terrorism and the Twitter Rules make it clear that this type of behavior, or any violent threat, is not permitted on our service. The loose hacking collective, which grew out of the infamous 4Chan forum in the late 2000s, announced its war on Isis in 2015, taking control of almost 100 twitter accounts following the Charlie.
While San Francisco-based Twitter did not admit that the accounts were hacked, images of the hacked accounts and the Twitter account responsible for the hacking suggest otherwise.Ī Twitter spokesperson told CBS San Francisco on Wednesday: An Anonymous hacker is hijacking the Twitter accounts of ISIS supporters and flooding their profiles with pro-LGBT messages and links to graphic gay porn in the wake of the deadly Orlando attack. SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - The hacker-activist group known as Anonymous has hacked into dozens of pro-Islamic State Twitter accounts and infused them with gay pride and gay pornography following the Orlando mass shooting. Twitter released a statement in February that said it was forced to suspend at least '125,000 accounts for threatening or promoting terrorist acts, primarily related to ISIS' since the middle of 2015.