Some prominent Twitter accounts that belong to the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) have been hacked. The hack was done after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando that took the lives of 50 and wounded 53.
The hackers hacked the accounts by replacing militants propaganda messages with imagery related to pro-LGBT such as rainbow flags. The hacker also added links to same-sex pornography.
The hack was done by WauchulaGhost, a hacker affiliated with the Anonymous. His work adds to a list of previous hacks on ISIS-related Twitter accounts by hackers known as Ebony and Yeti. The two have hacked more than 200 accounts, which most have been removed by Twitter as part of its mission to remove propaganda on its platform.
"I did it for the lives lost in Orlando. Daesh [ISIS] have been spreading and praising the attack, so I thought I would defend those that were lost. The taking of innocent lives will not be tolerated," said WauchulaGhost.
the LGBT theme was chosen because the Orlando mass killing was one of the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman, and also one of the deadliest incident of violence against LGBT people in U.S. history. It's also regarded as the largest mass killing of LGBT people in the Western world since the Holocaust, and the deadliest attack in the U.S. since September 11th, 2001.
