Hacker Claims Credit For Shutdown Of Wbc Church's Website !

Twitter postal service suggests 'The Jester' may get got been responsible for knocking controversial church building offline

A Twitter message from Mon suggests that a seld-proclaimed "hacktivist" using the grip The Jester may get got been responsible for knocking the controversial Westboro Baptist Church offline.

In the message, the hacker claimed to get got temporarily taken downwards Earth website of the church building "for celebrating the expiry of U.S.A. troops."

The message, however, made no straight refer if The Jester (@th3j35t3r onTwitter) was too responsible for the unavailability today of several other websites affiliated to the WBC.

Members of the WBC church, based inward Topeka, Kan., are known for their strident anti-gay views too for protests at funerals of slain armed forces personnel too others.

Last week, someone purporting to live from the hacking collective known every bit Anonymous, posted a alphabetic lineament on an Anonymous site, alarm WBC members of attacks against their church building world websites if they did non halt their protests.

The alphabetic lineament lamented the "inimitable bigotry too intolerant fanaticism" of the protesters too warned of online attacks that the church building would non live able to withstand or recover from.

That alphabetic lineament was subsequently dismissed every bit a hoax yesteryear Anonymous, which has been involved inward several high-profile attacks recently, including one against the safety theatre HBGary.

The WBC didn't at i time provide a asking for comment. However, an opened upward alphabetic lineament posted yesteryear the church building before this calendar week challenged Anonymous to "Bring It."

"Anonymous is warring amongst God; rattling stupid for lilliputian boys claiming to live too then smart," the alphabetic lineament noted.

This morning, all of the church's sites were unavailable. It is non at i time clear how long the sites get got been downwards too what role, if any, The Jester or Anonymous may get got played. There has been no reply yet to a Computerworld asking for comment from Anonymous members.

The Jester, previously claimed responsibleness for launching distributed denial of service attacks against WikiLeaks last twelvemonth inward reply to what it claimed was WikiLeaks' utilisation inward endangering the lives of U.S.A. troops.

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