Hackers claiming to be associated with Daesh attacked the website of the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights on Wednesday and threatened its director, AFP reported.
The group, which calls itself Cyber Army of the Khilafah (Caliphate) replaced the front page of the monitor’s site with an altered image of the Observatory’s director with text threatening him.
The Observatory provided a screenshot of the hacked website to AFP that showed an image of director Rami Abdel Rahman’s face photoshopped onto the body of a hostage dressed in a jumpsuit, seemingly about to be beheaded by a knife-wielding militant.
The text in the image claims that the "Cyber Army of the Khilafah broke into the computer systems of SOHR ... seized control of its website, destroying it, and wiping out the data."
Abdel Rahman confirmed to the hackers had destroyed data on the Observatory's servers, but told AFP "we have a copy of all the information that has been published and until the site is back up, we will publish on our Facebook and Twitter accounts."
“We will continue to do our work and document what is happening in Syria,” he told AFP.
