Anonymous hacked by Turkish group

The Anonymous hacker group has itself been hacked by a Turkish group, Ayyıldız Tim, which previously hacked websites of the United States and Israel.

As the Anonymous website hacked by the team, viewers see the message, “This website is hacked by Ayyıldız Tim” followed by the Turkish flag and the image of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Republic of Turkey.

After the hacking, the founder of the group said that they wanted to retaliate against Anonymous for trying to humiliate Turkey.

The founder of Ayyıldız Tim who said that this hacking took 20 days, also expressed their intention of hacking Anonymous for its claims that Turkey supports Daesh.

The Turkish group stated that their next mission is hacking the websites of Russian ministries , particularly the website of the Defense Ministry of Russia.

Ayyıldız Tim, which describes itself as 'nationalist and patriotic' has been hacking a large number of websites including the website of the United States Department of Defense and Israel's Iron Dome defense system

The recent move of Ayyıldız Tim followed the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks which has been plaguing Turkish websites since 14 December.

During the period, access to as many as 400,000 Turkish websites was disabled after the attacks.

The main suspect in the attack is Russia, which increased tension with extensive economic sanctions against Turkey over the downing of an SU-24 in November.

The suspicion gained strength with the statement of the hacker group Anonymous, which claimed responsibility for the attacks, but added that their campaign was against Turkey, which downed a Russian jet.

The researches indicate that an attack such as the latest could most likely be conducted with the support of a state

Anonymous originated in 2003. Its members appear in public wearing stylized Guy Fawkes masks.

The recent activities of Anonymous, which opposes Internet censorship and control and targets governments, organizations, and corporations they accuse of censorship, have been criticized by many people for their politically biased attitude.