Anonymous announces the first results of the action against IS

Confirming what it announced two days after the terrorist attacks that took place in Paris, France, where more than 120 people were killed - the hacker group Anonymous announced that it had managed to overthrow over 5.500 Twitter accounts linked to the terrorist organization, to which declared war the day before.

in declaration à russian news agency RT, the spokesperson for the Anonymous, Alex Poucher, said that the main strategy of the group is to dismantle the communication and propaganda of the Islamic State. "Our ability to take down IS is a direct result of our sophisticated hackers, data miners and spies that we have around the world.“, he stated. "They don't have hackers like ours“, He completed.

According to Poucher, the group Anonymous has agents"very very close" to the Islamic state in the field, and who has access to electronic tools that “can be better than any government tools” to fight internet terrorists.

This is not the first action on behalf of the group. Anonymous against EI. In January of this year, after the attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hedbo (also occurred in France), messages were circulated declaring actions against the participants of the terrorist group.

According to a report by the organization Foreign Policy, just this year, hackers from Anonymous already taken off the air about 150 pages of the web linked to Islamic state. In addition, the group also denounced more than 100 thousand profiles on Twitter, which are still awaiting appreciation and response from the social network.