Group Claims Responsibility for Buckhead Billboard Hack

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An online group has publicly taken credit for placing a pornographic image on a digital billboard in Buckhead earlier this week.

The group, which calls itself the “Assange Shuffle Collective,” posted on Reddit in the aftermath of the incident and claimed that they were, “responsible for the happy afternoon entertainment.” The group claimed that they did not realize Buckhead was an upscale part of Atlanta before they began their “entertainment,” adding that the discovery made the incident ”terrifically good fun” and reinforced their desire to “[b]urn the rich.”

The fun may be over soon, however, as the FBI has teamed up with Atlanta police to track down the person or people responsible for the intrusion, 11 Alive News says. The Assange Shuffle Collective said it had enough security protocols in place to defeat any attempt by law enforcement to discover any information about the group.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, people in the area of Peachtree and East Paces Ferry roads on Saturday were acquainted with some very intimate parts of a man’s anatomy which were displayed on the billboard. According to 11 Alive News, some people were so disturbed by the shocking image that they called 911.

An Atlanta police spokesperson told the station that they had to cut power to the billboard to stop the image from appearing. The AJC reports that personnel from the Department of Homeland Security, Georgia Power, and Atlanta Fire Rescue were called to the scene to deal with the situation.