FFPC Website Attacked, Hacker Claims Due to Their Stance on Islam

John Stemberger, president and general counsel of the Florida Family Policy Council, sent out an email to supporters on Monday reporting that his organizations website had been hacked by a radical Muslim hacker.

We have some rather stunning and almost unbelievable news that we need to report, wrote Stemberger. Late last week, we were attacked and the code of our FFPC website at FLFamily.org was completely disabled and destroyed by a radical Muslim hacker.

Stemberger wrote that his legal relationship with Rifqa Bary, the young woman who fled Ohio to Florida after converting from Islam to Christianity after fear that her life was in jeopardy from radical Muslims, led to the site being attacked.

In my personal capacity as an attorney, I agreed to represent Rifqa in this high-profile Orlando case last year, continued Stemberger. Rifqas parents actively attended a mosque in Columbus that had ties to terrorists organizations around the world. I wrote an extensive memorandum documenting this to the Florida court. Handling Rifqas case was perhaps the most challenging and stressful thing I have ever done in my life.

While Stemeberger added that Rifqas case has gone well, there have been complications.

Last Monday, the lawyer who represented Rifqas parents in Ohio who claims to be a Muslim scholar filed a $10 million lawsuit against me personally in Federal Court alleging emotional distress and damage to reputation because of my comments on one of the Fox News interviews., he wrote. This same lawyer has filed multiple grievances against me with the Florida Bar, trying to have me disbarred or disciplined as an attorney.

In addition to all of this, last Friday a Muslim hacker somehow gained access to our FFPC website, (apparently through the host server or some older code) and disabled the entire back-end controls on the site, erased most of the data, disabled the blog and left an obscene message on the events page explaining in broken English who he was and why he was hacking the site, added Stemberger who provided a photo of the message. Our web experts tell us that the five-year-old site, which has served us well, is completely unusable and needs to be replaced

I need and covet your prayers for my wife and family and the rest of our staff during this difficult and challenging time, he concluded. Thank you for your faithfulness and support of our work.

The hacker, who called himself vKey H@x0r, wrote a jumbled message with an expletive, saying the site was hacked due to the organizations stance against Islam.