Ohio State Treasurer Josh Mandel posted a tweet telling "freedom-loving Americans" that radical Islam was "infiltrating the heartland". The New York Post said the website of the New York state town of Brookhaven was also affected. The US is currently holding high-level inquiries into alleged cyber attacks by Russia aimed at influencing the result of last year's presidential election.OH Dept of Corrections website right now, this is what you see. Wake up freedom-loving Americans. Radical Islam infiltrating the heartland. pic.twitter.com/dRll4aNiwQ
— Josh Mandel (@JoshMandelOhio) June 25, 2017
A number of US government websites in Ohio have been hacked to display a message that purports to be supportive of the Islamic State terrorist group.
The website of Ohio Governor John Kasich was also hacked, reports BBC.
The message said President Donald Trump would be held accountable for "every drop of blood flowing in Muslim countries" and ended "I love Islamic state".
According to the BBC report, the message contained an Arabic symbol and was written mainly in the black and white used in the flag of so-called Islamic State.
The hacking was carried out by a group calling itself Team System DZ, who had carried out a number of hacking sprees in the past, many carrying anti-Israel messages.
The message on Kasich's site read: "You will be held accountable Trump, you and all your people for every drop of blood flowing in Muslim countries."
Governor Kasich's website was still down for maintenance at 17:30 local time (21:30 GMT).
A spokeswoman for Kasich, Emmalee Kalmbach, said in a statement: "As soon as we were notified of the situation, we immediately began to correct it, and will continue to monitor until fully resolved."
A number of other sites were affected, including those of Ohio's First Lady Karen Kasich, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, the Ohio Office of Health Transformation, the Ohio Inspector General and the Ohio Department of Medicaid.
