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On 4 February 2021, the BBC reported that an anti-fascist collective of Israeli hackers claimed it had breached a website associated with the Patriotic Brigade Knights, described as allied with the Ku Klux Klan. The group said it defaced the site and published personal information it had obtained from it; the BBC report documents those claims but does not independently confirm the intrusion.
What happened to the website?
According to the BBC report published on 4 February 2021, the site was associated with the Patriotic Brigade Knights, a group described as allied with the white-supremacist Ku Klux Klan. The hackers replaced site content with a banner that read, “Shabbat Shalom! Goodnight white pride.”
The group also published names, photographs and other personal information that it said it had scraped from the website. The report does not establish how many people were affected or independently verify the data’s origin.
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Who claimed responsibility, and why?
The hackers told the Jerusalem Post that they were part of the Antifa movement and used the name Hayalim Almonim, Hebrew for “Anonymous Soldiers.” BBC reported their stated objective as to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of humanity.” They framed the operation as part of an anti-fascist campaign against white-supremacist groups.
What information did the hackers say they disclosed?
The BBC said the hackers shared a link to the Texas Public Sex Offender Registry and alleged that a senior member had been registered for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. That allegation came from the hackers’ disclosure; the report does not independently establish its accuracy. One hacker told the BBC, “There is a lot more coming.”
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Was this the group’s first reported attack?
The hackers said they had previously carried out a similar attack on the Church of the Ku Klux Klan. They claimed that organization appeared active in 25 U.S. states; the figure was attributed to the hackers in BBC’s reporting, not independently audited.
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The available BBC report records the hackers’ claims and the material they posted, but it does not provide independent forensic confirmation, a police finding or a court record establishing that the site was intruded upon. It also documents no official institutional or law-enforcement response. The reported defacement and data disclosure should therefore be understood as claims attributed to the hackers, not as independently verified findings.
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