Anonymous DDoSes Trump Towers NY website

Dec 11, 2015 22:06 GMT  ·  By

Anonymous, the infamous hacker collective, has just crashed one of Donald Trump's many websites, as revenge for his hateful anti-Muslim propaganda after the San Bernardino massacre.

Trump called for a ban on all Muslims from entering the United States, as soon as the details of the San Bernardino mass shooting revealed that a Muslim couple was to blame for the massacre that left 14 dead and 21 wounded.

Anonymous stands with Muslims

Members of Anonymous did not like this particular stance and Trump's constant hate tirades directed at Muslims and decided to take action.

The group launched massive DDoS attacks on the trumptowerny.com website, which soon fell to the pressure. The website continued to remain up and serve a static version of its homepage thanks to a copy stored in CloudFlare's cache, but after a few hours, it eventually went down completely and continues to be offline at the moment of writing this article.

trumptowerny.com is the website for the 68-story Trump Towers office building in New York, an iconic building in the city, and one that helped Donald Trump gain much of his fame.

Future attacks on Trump Web realties are to be expected

The group announced their success on Twitter, and soon a YouTube video was up, along with the following statement.

"Donald Trump, it has come to our attention that you want to ban all Muslims from entering the United States. This policy is going to have a huge impact. This is what ISIS wants. The more Muslims feel sad, the more ISIS feels they can recruit them. The more the United States appears to be targeting Muslims, not just radical Muslims, you can be sure that ISIS will be putting that on their social media campaign. Donald Trump, think twice before you speak anything. You have been warned Mr. Donald Trump."