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On May 5, hacker group Anonymous hacked the website of airline company GlobalX, the airline carrying out the lawless deportation of Americans, many of them legal residents.
The website was defaced with a message from Anonymous which read:
Anonymous has decided to enforce the Judge's order since you and your sycophant staff ignore lawful orders that go against your fascist plans.
The message refers to Federal U.S. District Court Judge Fernando Rodriguez ruling on May 1 that the Alien Enemies Act cannot be used to carry out deportations. The message quotes the Judge’s order and mocks Trump, stating “You lose again Donnie.”
An archived image of the website can be viewed here.
The group also claims to have stolen flight records and passenger details. The deportation flight of Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been confirmed.
The hack is one of many done by Anonymous. Formed in the early 2000’s, little is known about its members or organizational structure. Anonymous engages in “hacktivism”, hacking to enact political change.
The group previously hacked Tunisian government servers to prevent government surveillance of protesters during the Arab Spring protests and hacked the Ku Klux Klan and leaked the personal information of the organization’s members.
In 2020, Anonymous leaked over 269 gigabytes of internal law enforcement data during the George Floyd protests showing that law enforcement agencies engaged in extensive surveillance of peaceful protestors. After Texas passed an abortion ban in 2021, Anonymous vowed to target the websites of abortion “whistle-blowers” and hacked the Texas Republican Party’s website, defacing it with a link to donate to Planned Parenthood.
