Trump, though, isn’t the only person on Anonymous’ list of targets.
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“Donald Trump, think twice before you speak anything”, the video said.
Taking time out of its busy schedule on a day it had announced as ‘day of ISIS trolling’, the online hacktivist collective Anonymous spared some time to launch a campaign against the US Presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Trump’s proposal to keep Muslims out of the USA has been met with outrage from members of both parties.
That afternoon on Twitter, a user called @FibsFreitag posted a screengrab of what appeared to be an attempt to take down the Trump Tower site.
Trump Tower, a 68-story, mixed-use building in midtown Manhattan, is the flagship property of the Trump Organization, the worldwide real-estate company that Donald Trump leads as chairman and president.
Shortly following the hack, a Twitter account associated with the hacking group confirmed the attack, saying the takedown was a “statement against racism and hatred”.
A spokesperson for Trump Towers was not available for comment.
Following Trump’s declaration to ban Muslim immigrants from entering the United States, CNN’s Chris Cuomo got heated during an interview and called the plan “stupid”.
A recent poll by New York Times/CBS News showed Americans are more fearful about the likelihood of another terrorist attack than at any other time since the weeks after September 11, 2001.
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Anonymous, a loose-knit worldwide network of activist hackers, or “hacktivists”, is famous for launching cyber attacks on groups such as the Islamic State following the attacks in Paris last month that killed 129 people.
