Celestia Founder Mustafa Al-Bassam Shares Insights from His Early Hacking Experiences
Mustafa Al-Bassam, the co-founder and CEO of Celestia, has recently shared insights into his early years as a hacker, including significant hacks targeting entities like the CIA and the Westboro Baptist Church.
According to Al-Bassam’s recent post, he disclosed his hacking history, which began in his teenage years as part of the hacker group LulzSec. During this time, he was involved in various cyberattacks, including a notable DDoS attack against the CIA website.
“My favourite hack was not CIA (which wasn’t even a hack but a DDoS),” said Al-Bassam. “But the Westboro Baptist Church… which we hacked on a live radio show.”
my favourite hack was not CIA (which wasn't even a hack but a ddos), but the Westboro Baptist Church, which was a 0day in a shitty PHP CMS, which we hacked on a live radio show https://t.co/HFEihIVbVX
— Mustafa Al-Bassam (@musalbas) January 15, 2024
Al-Bassam shared a video of the radio show from 13 years ago, which recorded the confrontation between him and Shirley Phelps-Roper from the Westboro Baptist Church.
The Church received letters that threatened to close their websites and believed that it was Al-Bassam’s hacktivist group doing it. However, Al-Bassam stated that the group did not want war with the Church and another hacktivist Jester was the one taking their websites down.
In addition, Phelps-Roper taunted and provoked Al-Bassam and claimed that “the internet was invented for the Westboro Baptist Church to get its message across.”
In the second half of the radio show, Al-Bassam revealed that during their back-and-forth debate, he has breached the Church’s website and published a release, as the intended peace was not appreciated.
LulzSec hacked numerous major organizations, including the CIA, the
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