Several state government websites in Ohio, including those of former Gov. John Kasich and his wife, Ohio First Lady Karen Kasich, were defaced over the weekend in a rash of hacking activity aimed at state and local governments claimed by Algeria-based pro-ISIS hacktivists. The defaced websites played the Islamic call to prayer and threatened President Donald Trump, noting that he would be held accountable for “every drop of blood flowing in Muslim countries” and ended “I Love Islamic state [sic].” An Ohio official told the AP that the hacks happened about 11am on Sunday, and the sites were all restored by Monday morning, as were most of the others struck. According to Zone-H, an Estonia-based site that has tracked website defacements like these for 15 years, the targets included government websites of Howard County, Maryland and other towns and counties in New York, Idaho and California. Zone-H preserved a mirror of the defaced Ohio governor’s site […]
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