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A new hacking group is in the town other than the popular Anonymous. News have been circulating and updating as a group of teenagers reported they have uncovered a link between the IP addresses of ISIL twitter accounts and the UK government.

Not very surprisingly, the British government admitted selling large numbers of internet addresses to Saudi Arabia, but refused to reveal how much it has earned from the transaction.

The teens, calling themselves ‘VandaSec’ revealed evidence that links at least three ISIS twitter accounts to the Department of Work and Pensions said the Mirror Online, which was the first to report the story. According to media reports, the accounts in question were used to recruit ‘would be Jihadists’ and spread their twisted propaganda.

Britain said these were sold as part of a drive to raise money by auctioning unused "IP addresses. Though you may not be aware of it, every computer or mobile phone you use logs onto the internet using an IP address. This address is a type of identification number which can track an individuals’ location and whereabouts. Although the government announced plans to auction its surplus IP numbers, it can now be revealed that a chunk of them went to Saudi Telecom and the Saudi-based Mobile Telecommunications Company.

At first glance, the IP addresses seem to be based in Saudi Arabia, but upon further inspection using specialist tools they appeared to link back to the DWP. VandaSec's work has sparked wild rumours suggesting someone inside the DWP is running ISIS-supporting accounts, or they were created by intelligence services.

However, when Mirror Online traced the IP addresses obtained by VandaSec, they found they actually pointed to a series of unpublicized transactions between Britain and Saudi Arabia. They learned that the British government sold on a large number of IP addresses to two Saudi Arabian firms. After the sale was completed in October of this year, they were used by extremists to spread their message of hate.

Jamie Turner, an expert from a firm called PCA Predict, discovered a record of the sale of IP addresses, and found a large number were transferred to Saudi Arabia in October of this year.

A Cabinet Office spokesperson justified the action saying "The government owns millions of unused IP addresses which we are selling to get a good return for hardworking taxpayers. We have sold a number of these addresses to telecoms companies both in the UK and internationally to allow their customers to connect to the internet.”

He went on to say "We think carefully about which companies we sell addresses to, but how their customers use this internet connection is beyond our control."

The government did not reveal how much money was made from selling the IP addresses to the pair of Saudi firms, because it regards this information as commercially sensitive. However, this could be a cover story to bury the fact that ISIS Twitter accounts are indeed linked to the DWP.