CNNMoney spoke with the person who has hacked Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) accounts with porn and gay pride.
WauchulaGhost started the campaign a month ago with only pornography, but added gay pride after Omar Mateen killed 49 people at Pulse, a gay club in Orlando, FL. He said:
“There was a few of us… that discovered a vulnerability,” he told CNNMoney. “We thought, ‘Hey let’s go start taking their accounts … and humiliating them.'”—“You had all those innocent lives lost,” he told CNNMoney. “I just felt there’s something I could do against the Islamic State to defend those people.”
WauchulaGhost changes the “ISIS flags with rainbows and gay couples embracing” on the Twitter profile. He has changed the Twitter name to “Jacked by a Ghost.” He will then go through the member’s followers list and DM them:
“I’ll talk to them for a few minutes, either in Arabic or English, and I’ll just have a normal conversation,” he told CNNMoney. “Then I’ll let them know it’s the ghost and not who they thought it was.”(He added that he doesn’t speak Arabic but has “contacts all over the world who translate for me.”)
He once belonged to the hacker group called Ghost Security Group, “made up of counterintelligence officials and computer specialists.” Some members used to belong to Anonymous, but this Ghost’s leader said this group “is small and more focused.”
But WauchulaGhost left Ghost in November. He identifies as a member of Anonymous, but works alone.
ISIS has developed a huge presence on social media, especially Twitter, where they spread their hate and recruit Westerners.
The militants sentence homosexuals to death in their caliphate. They have posted pictures of them throwing gays off rooftops.
ISIS used Mateen’s image in their latest recruitment ad, praising his actions for bringing destruction to America and murdering those who “sin” against Allah. Mateen called 911 and pledged allegiance to ISIS right before he open fired inside the club.
The terrorist group took credit for the attack after they heard Mateen mentioned them.
They released another statement on Monday:
“One of the Caliphate’s soldiers in America carried out a security invasion where he was able to enter a crusader gathering at a nightclub for homosexuals in Orlando, Florida … where he killed and injured more than a hundred of them before he was killed,” the group said in its broadcast.
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