Published 21:25 IST, February 6th 2020

‘Hacktivist’ group Anonymous hosts pro-Taiwan page on UN website

A decentralized international hacktivist group, Anonymous, hacked the United Nations website to create a page with a black background in support of Taiwan.

Reported by: Kunal Gaurav
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A decentralized international hacktivist group, Anymous, reportedly hacked website of United Nations to create a p in support of Taiwan. hacker group hosted a new p with a black background and Anymous symbol, a black suit and a question mark, on server of United Nations Department of Ecomic and Social Affairs.

A Reddit user hubahuba111 uploed a link of hacked p with caption "Thanks to Anymous Taiwan is back at UN again!" Below Anymous symbol,  "TAIWAN NUMBAH WANNNN!!" was written in reference to a famous quote uttered by an American gamer AngryPug which meant ‘Taiwan number one’.

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p also h Taiwan flag, party emblem of Kuomintang (KMT), and an embedded YouTube video that played Taiwan's national anm. A p was live for more than 14 hours and Reddit users praised hacktivist group for standing up for Taiwan. “We have never left. It would be nice to get official recognition. But we have always been re,” wrote a user. “I like how y put both KMT and DPP flags in re,” wrote ar user.

In 1971, United Nations suspended passed a resolution to recognise People's Republic of China (PRC) as ‘ only legitimate representative of China to United Nations’ and removed representative of Taiwan or Republic of China (ROC). 

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21:25 IST, February 6th 2020