Giving Children Hope’s website was hacked into on Monday, Jan. 5. The hacker group, self-identifying as a Syrian rebel sympathizers, took over the homepage, turning it into a black screen with red text reading, “I love ISIS”. Giving Children Hope’s staff immediately took down the site to address the problem.
Giving Children Hope’s website was hacked into on Monday, Jan. 5. The hacker group, self-identifying as a Syrian rebel sympathizers, took over the homepage, turning it into a black screen with red text reading, “I love ISIS”. Giving Children Hope’s staff immediately took down the site to address the problem.
A list published online included several hundred websites around the world that had been hacked by the same group over the past several days. Within a few hours, Giving Children Hope’s website was back up and running. No personal or donor information was compromised.
Giving Children Hope is one of the few Orange County nonprofits sending relief supplies to displaced Syrian refugees. The organization has sent 18 container loads to refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan. Giving Children Hope’s Executive Director, Sean Lawrence, visited Lebanon to oversee distribution in September 2014.
There are 3 million registered Syrian refugees with millions more still in Syria in need of humanitarian aid. Giving Children Hope will continue to support the Syrian people living in refugee ghettos and camps desperate for safety for themselves and their families.
To donate to Giving Children Hope’s Syrian refugee work visit www.gchope.org/donate, call 714-523-4454, or mail a check to Giving Children Hope, 8332 Commonwealth Ave., Buena Park, CA 90621.
Giving Children Hope, which is based in Buena Park, is a faith-based partner providing sustainable hope through wellness programs and disaster response in collaboration with local and global communities. The organization does this through the gathering and giving of medical resources, nutritional foods, and basic needs.
