The British National Party’s (BNP) Twitter account and website have been hacked by an anonymous Twitter user going by the name of ‘Anon_0x03’, who posted various goading messages on the party’s social media account.
Late on Thursday night, the Twitter feed belonging to the extreme anti-foreigner British National Party was disrupted from its normal flow of tweets about the party’s policies, and instead began to tweet abuse at party leader Nick Griffin.
Messages included, “@nickgriffinmep kiss my penis bitch lol – @Anon_0x03” and “They are all faggots wishing power”.
The BNP’s website appeared to be hacked too, with the communications.bnp.org.uk website redirecting to a page displayed a Guy Fawkes masked hacker in front of a laptop with the words “Hacked by Anon_0x03, Fuck the Government!”
The sentiment is somewhat bizarre since the BNP has nothing to do with the British government.
The hacker lists anonops.com as his website, a homepage of one of the notorious ‘Anonymous’ hacker groups. His Twitter profile gives little away, claiming he is a ‘Hacktivista’ and an ex-member of a Venezuelan hackers group.
As of 00:20 on Friday morning, the accounts were still under the control of the hacker.