14 DAY TRIAL // Authorities in Morocco have arrested a couple of teens after they posted a picture of them kissing on Facebook. Now, Anonymous hackers have set their sights on the Moroccan government.
“It has come to our attention two Moroccan teenagers were arrested in the north-eastern Moroccan town of Nador on the 3rd of October for violating public decency after posting a photo of themselves exchanging a kiss outside their school on Facebook. A third teen was held for merely taking the photo,” the hackers wrote in a statement published on Pastebin.
“This senseless attack on an innocent expression of young love in a country notorious for the domestic abuse of women is a sick and twisted mirror image of what the Moroccan government should be focusing on instead,” they added.
The hacktivists say they’ll be monitoring the situation until the teens’ trial on November 22.
In the meantime, they claim to have already breached the systems of the Department of Water (water.gov.ma), an organization under the Moroccan Ministry of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment. As a result of the hack, large amounts of information have been stolen and published online.
The leaked data includes login credentials, and various other pieces of information which, according to the hackers, represent bank transfer details and personnel files.
“Drop the charges against these teenagers. Pull back from the brink of the unbelievable two year sentence they could be facing for simply expressing affection for each other and we will also back down. Continue down this road and we will rip through your government servers, leaking and deleting as we go. None of your systems will be safe,” Anonymous threatened.
We’ve reached out to the Department of Water to see if they’re aware of the breach, and if they care to comment on the incident.