Hacktivists continue to target the far-right organization

Aug 20, 2013 13:47 GMT  ·  By

Hacktivists continue to target the English Defence League (EDL). They’ve leaked the mobile phone numbers of several of the organization’s members, and they claim to have shut down the official EDL website.

On Sunday, members of the ZCompany Hacking Crew (ZHC) – a group that has been targeting the EDL for several years now – leaked a list of around 60 mobile phone numbers.

“‘Z’ being the last alphabet has been chosen for ‘ZCompany Hacking Crew (ZHC)’ as its an end to injustice, extremism, Racism, Zionism, lies, illegal occupations and all such evils. We Hack/Deface for a reason, our reason for defacing is to raise awareness of the issues in the world with a main focus on Kashmir & Palestine,” the hackers wrote next to the leaked data.

Today, the website of the EDL, englishdefenceleague.org, has become inaccessible. ZHC hackers claim they’ve breached the website and removed it from the Web.

This wouldn’t be the first time the EDL’s website is hacked. The latest attack took place in May when Muslim hackers defaced the website.

Other attacks took place in December 2010, March 2012, and November 2012.

Updated to clarify that ZHC is the group that hacked EDL's website.