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Why a Stittsville — yes, Stittsville — food truck was hacked by a group claiming to have ties with the Islamic State? Beaudry said he thinks it’s as ridiculous as it sounds.

“We’re just a little food truck in Stittsville; I have absolutely zero idea why this happened,” he said while laughing. “I couldn’t even begin to fathom it.”

Beaudry said he called the police right away, but “I got the run around so much that it was almost like dealing with Rogers.

“I got referred to the same people over and over. I’m still working, so I didn’t have the time to deal with that.”

Carmen Lai, who was at the truck at lunchtime, said she comes to the ‘Wiches Cauldron at least once every two weeks, and though she regularly visits the Facebook page for updates, she said she hadn’t seen the site.

“Seems like they just want attention,” she said, looking at the hacked site on a phone. “Which I don’t think they should get.”

In fact, Beaudry said, the only people who seem to have seen their hacked site, beside the media, were long-time customers who took the time to message him.

“So I can’t see anything negative coming from it. Business has been fantastic today,” he said.

And while Beaudry couldn’t understand why his truck was the subject of an online attack by a band of alleged ISIL supporters, it’s not too surprising if you spend a bit of time digging into “Team System DZ’s” background.

The group has been a headache for law enforcement officials all around the world in recent months. They use an extremely low-tech hacking technique to deface websites all over the Internet. The group uses a readily available piece of software that simply searches the Internet for unpatched web servers and then takes over those servers and slides in the group’s rant about the Islamic State.