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Infamous hacktivist organisation Anonymous has defaced the website of GlobalX, the US airline being used by the Trump administration for deporting what it calls illegal migrants to prisons in El Salvador.
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) has been deporting those it deems illegals, referring to those who are in the US illegally or are alleged gang members, to detention centres in El Salvador using GlobalX.
Most recently, it has been targeting the deportation of individuals who are allegedly Venezuelan gang members, which resulted in roughly 130 Venezuelan migrants being deported on 15 March 2025.
However, on 1 May, it was determined by Trump-appointed US District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr that the reason for the deportations was illegal and a violation of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) of 1789.
Now, Anonymous has protested against the Trump administration’s lack of action in response to the judge ruling, defacing the website of GlobalX.
“Anonymous has decided to enforce the Judge’s order since you and your sycophant staff ignore lawful orders that go against your fascist plans,” wrote Anonymous. “You lose again Donnie.”
In what the hacktivist group is calling “Operation DreadNought”, GlobalX’s website displayed a message by Anonymous, which included the three-paragraph ruling made by Judge Rodriguez Jr.
“The President cannot summarily declare that a foreign nation or government has threatened or perpetrated an invasion or predatory incursion of the United States, followed by the identification of the alien enemies subject to detention or removal,” Judge Rodriguez said.
“The proclamation makes no reference to and in no manner suggests that a threat exists of an organised, armed group of individuals entering the United States at the direction of Venezuela to conquer the country or assume control over a portion of the nation. Thus, the proclamation’s language cannot be read as describing conduct that falls within the meaning of ‘invasion’ for purposes of the AEA.
“Allowing the President to unilaterally define the conditions when he may invoke the AEA, and then summarily declare that those conditions exist, would remove all limitations to the executive branch’s authority under the AEA, and would strip the courts of their traditional role of interpreting congressional statutes to determine whether a government official has exceeded the statute’s scope. The law does not support such a position.”
NEW: NEW: GlobalX, the company doing many deportation flights for ICE, has been hacked. Hackers claim to have stolen flight manifest information and flight details, and have also defaced the website pic.twitter.com/s0EQ9n2oFy
— Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) May 5, 2025
Alongside defacing the GlobalX website, Anonymous also allegedly exfiltrated confidential manifest reports from the 15 March deportations – GlobalX flights 6143, 6145, and 6122.
The data within those manifests would include crew data, passenger data, including names and numbers, flight number, departure and arrival times, as well as the departure and arrival airports.
According to 404Media, which claims to have been sent the data, the exfiltrated information may also reveal details of a class action lawsuit that intended to block the removal of five alleged Tren de Aragua deportees.
The class action has since been heard in the US Supreme Court, ruling in favour of the deportees. However, the men had already been deported.
Whoa. @404mediaco reports that hackers have shared flight manifests for the 3 GlobalX flights to El Salvador on March 15.
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) May 5, 2025
This could confirm whether ICE is telling the truth that the third plane which took off after Boasberg’s order had only people with final orders of removal. https://t.co/xtUMGRWrLN pic.twitter.com/4F3w1JeRFO
Anonymous’ defacement of GlobalX has since been reverted, and the site has been restored.
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