A website reporting on Myanmar issues; The Irrawaddy, appeared to have been hacked on October 2, by a group calling itself the ‘Blink Hacker Group’ and claiming that the media group should apologise for a recent article about the visit of controversial Buddhist monk, the Venerable U Wirathu to Sri Lanka.
The Irrawaddy homepage displayed an altered masthead that read “Covering Muslims and Radical Muslims.”
Further down the page it read “Irrawaddy supports Jihad& Radical Muslims. For the defend of the Muslims and Allah, Irrawady have shown attacking Buddhists and others Non-Muslims with Media News [sic].”
It continued to defend Sri Lanka's BoduBalaSena or “Buddhist Power Force”, who were reported on September 30to have made an agreement with U Wirathu’s 969 movement.
U Wirathu was quoted as saying this agreement was to “protect and defend threatened Buddhists the world over [who are]facing a serious threat today from jihadist groups.”
The BHG continued to criticize the Irrawaddy Group and its use of “so called freedom of speech,” claiming that its actions followed “so called freedom of internet hacking,” before concluding with a reference to Halloween and a “shout out to all Myanmar black hat.”
