'Anonymous' vs. ISIS: 5,500 ISIS-supporter accounts taken down by group; see details here

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After the terrorist attacks in Paris a few days ago, the "Anonymous" hacker group pledge to go all out against the terrorist ISIS group. They said that they will use their expertise in fighting against them.

In an article written by Jaspher Hamill and published in Mirror Online, it is stated that the group has already started publishing some information of supposed big time ISIS recruiters.

It has been reported that a total of 5,500 Twitter accounts whose owners are said to support the terrorist group have been taken down by the masked hacking group. Aside from taking down thousands of ISIS-supporters' Twitter accounts, they also released the details, including the names, phone numbers and addresses, of five ISIS recruiters. Mirror Online claims to have seen the details already.

They said that there are people in the list who are coming from the countries of Afghanistan, Somalia and Tunisia

The publication claimed that they have tried to contact some of the men who are in the list. Unfortunately, they did not receive any response from any of them yet. Thus, there is still no report whether the men admitted, denied or decided to keep mum about the allegation.

Aside from the five ISI recruiters whose identities are said to have been published by "Anonymous," there are still other identified Europe-based high-ranking ISIS recruiters. Nonetheless, there is still no information released about these alleged Europe-based ISIS recruiters.

The group sees their act of shutting down Twitter accounts of ISIS supporters and tracking down information of ISIS recruiters is an effective method of putting an end to ISIS recruitment and damaging their propaganda machine.

While "Anonymous" have garnered worldwide attention for announcing their intention to stop ISIS, another hacking group named "GhostSec" has used their skills and efforts in tracing the ones who involved in recent Paris terrorist attacks, the Kicker Daily said.

According to ABC News, the OpParisOfficial Twitter account, believed to be an account of the "Anonymous" group, first announced that they already shut down more than 3,000 Twitter accounts. Then, after a day, they increased the number to more than 5,5000 accounts.

They also reported that the ISIS has already hit back against the threat of getting their accounts hacked. The terror group is said to have called the hacking group "idiots." Also, it is stated that ISIS have shared information on how to avoid being hacked. The information has been passed to IS-related Telegram channels.