The fight over transgender bathroom policies is starting to get really heated up, and now hackers associated with Anonymous have targeted the government in North Carolina.
Here are the details.
From The Hill:
Hackers associated with the group Anonymous are targeting the North Carolina state government in protest of the so-called bathroom law.
While the hackers were unable to take down the state’s main website, some domains — such as northcarolina.gov, governor.state.nc.us and ncgov.org — were inaccessible Monday, CNNreported.
The campaign targets a controversial new state law that requires people to use the restroom corresponding with their biological sex assigned at birth.
“It is not only an operation against the bathroom bill — this is an operation against all the laws against LGBT. [The] reason for launching the attacks was making North Carolina aware that we are here to fight and ready to fight to the end,” the hacker behind the attacks told IBTimes UK.
the legislation has been pilloried as a civil rights violation and has sparked dueling lawsuits between the state and the Obama administration.
“F— you North Carolina main govt website http://nc.gov #TangoDown For making strong anti-gay laws!” a Twitter account announcing “OpLGBT” tweeted.
A state spokesperson told CNN that all of its government websites were operating as normal.
It seems that this issue has taken the hot seat, and will continue to for quite some time. Anonymous has made waves over the years regarding many controversies. Looks like they are just getting started.
Read more at The Hill