Hackers gets their way into ISIL twitter account

Hackers have claimed that a number of Islamic
State supporters' social media accounts are
being run from internet addresses linked to the
Department of Work and Pensions.
A group of four young computer experts who
call themselves VandaSec have unearthed
evidence indicating that at least three ISIS-
supporting accounts can be traced back to the
DWP.
Every computer and mobile phone logs onto the
internet using an IP address, which is a type of
identification number.
The hacking collective showed Mirror Online
details of the IP addresses used by a trio of
separate digital jihadis to access Twitter
accounts, which have been used to spread
extremist propaganda.
At first glance, the IP addresses seem to be
based in Saudi Arabia, but upon further
inspection using specialist tools they appeared
to link back to the DWP.
"Don't you think that's strange?" one of the
hackers asked Mirror Online. "We traced these
accounts back to London, the home of the
British intelligence services."
VandaSec's work has sparked wild rumours
suggesting someone inside the DWP is running
ISIS-supporting accounts, or they were created
by intelligence services as a honeypot to trap
wannabe jihadis.
However, when Mirror Online traced the IP
addresses obtained by VandaSec, we found they
actually pointed to a series of unpublicised
transactions between Britain and Saudi Arabia.
We learned that the British government sold on a
large number of IP addresses to two Saudi
Arabian firms.
After the sale completed in October of this year,
they were used by extremists to spread their
message of hate.
Jamie Turner, an expert from a firm called PCA
Predict, discovered a record of the sale of IP
addresses, and found a large number were
transferred to Saudi Arabia in October of this
year.
He told us it was likely the IP addresses could
still be traced back to the DWP because records
of the addresses had not yet been fully updated.
The Cabinet Office has now admitted to selling
the IP addresses on to Saudi Telecom and the
Saudi-based Mobile Telecommunications
Company earlier this year as part of a wider
drive to get rid of a large number of the DWP's
IP addresses.
It said the British government can have no
control over how these addresses are used after
the sale.