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EDL 'members' details' posted

Activists claiming to be part of the hacking protest group Anonymous have apparently published contact details of English Defence League members online. The details of more than 200 people from across the country are reportedly on the list.

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Hackers vow 'decimation' of English Defence League

An online message purportedly from members of the hacking protest group Anonymous has threatened the "comprehensive decimation" of the English Defence League:

Under the guise of national pride you have instigated crimes against the innocent and incited the subjugation of Muslims.

We will not allow your injustices, your lies, and your stupidity, to further radicalize our youth into fearing and despising their fellow man.

In this operation, we will begin the systematic and comprehensive decimation of your cult.

We will further expose your falsities and your attempts to censor, to your members, to the British public, and to the world as a whole.

You will fall, we can say this with complete confidence

– Excerpt from 'A Message from Anonymous UK to the English Defence League'

EDL accused of using soldier's death to spread hate

The publication of the contact details of alleged EDL members online by a hacking protest group, comes after a video vowing to bring the organisation down was posted online.

Titled 'A Message from Anonymous UK to the English Defence League', it accuses the group of using the death of Drummer Lee Rigby as an "another excuse to further spread your campaign of hate, bigotry, and misinformation".

Drummer Lee Rigby was killed in Woolwich last Wednesday. Credit: : MOD

Around 1,000 protesters joined an EDL march to Downing Street on Monday, chanting "Muslim killers off our streets" and "There's only one Lee Rigby" in tribute to the soldier killed in Woolwich last week.

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EDL 'members' contact details' posted online by hackers

People claiming to be part of the hacking protest group Anonymous have apparently published contact details of English Defence League members online.

The names and addresses of more than 200 people from across the country are said to be on the list, the BBC reports.

English Defence League members at a protest. Credit: Press Association

The mobile numbers of senior EDL members are also thought to have been included on the list.

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