The list was released under the operation #OpISIS campaign which was launched by Anonymous earlier this year after the gruesome killings at Charlie Hebdo office in Paris. The Anonymous have so far successfully brought down many websites stating affiliation to the ISIS or IS and released Twitter, email VPN account details belonging to them. The current list which contains 26000 Twitter handles including 10408 active accounts has been posted here. Anonymous member xrsone made the data base public with following tweet :
— (John Chase) (@xrsone) March 31, 2015 Xrsone has also made a detailed post on Medium where he explains the Anonymous position vis-a-vis ISIS and their supporters. The post is given below : Anonymous have already made public around 9200 Twitter handles on March 16th to pressurise Twitter to ban these accounts. It is not known whether this list contains those accounts but it is highly likely that the 26000 Twitter account is a consolidated list of ISIS and its backers.
