4 February 2021
A collective of anti-fascist Israeli hackers have broken into a website of a group allied to the white-supremacist Ku Klux Klan.
The hackers subsequently published names, photos and other personal information about members of the Patriotic Brigade Knights, which they had scraped, on social media. They also replaced some of the site’s content with their own. This included a banner saying: “Shabbat Shalom! Goodnight white pride.”
The hackers say they are part of the Antifa movement, operating under the name Hayalim Almonim, Hebrew for Anonymous Soldiers. And their goal was to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of humanity”. The Antifa – short for anti-fascist action – movement, considered to be a loosely organized group of activists with no leaders, opposes neo-Nazis, fascism, white supremacists and racism.
Among the information taken from the Patriotic Knight Brigade’s website was the name, phone number and address of the group’s alleged leader. The hackers previously carried out a similar attack on the Church of the Ku Klux Klan, which they said appeared active in 25 states across the US.
Adapted from original source: BBCNews
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