The defacement seems to have taken place on Sunday afternoon and lasted for a few hours. The Daily Mail has, at the time of writing, published no details. However, Teampoison published a link on Twitter pointing to its own mirror of the defacement posted on the Zone-h website. The link claimed to have been defaced by Teampoison is currently offline, although access to the Daily Mail’s recipe pages is available through the Mail Online website.

Zone-h states that the ‘mirror is onhold and has not been verified yet’. It shows the defacement message claiming that the newspaper’s “distorted bias on news is wrongly justified by patriotism and conservatism, though we see through your hateful slurs.”

Last year the two hacktivist groups Anonymous and Teampoison declared that they had joined forces in what they called Operation Robin Hood – a campaign aiming to use stolen credit card and bank account information to steal money and donate to charities. This hack appears to be purely political. One noticeable feature of the defacement is a better use of the English language and knowledge (not perfect) of grammar than is usually found in defacements. "You can see through the lies if you can read between the lines,” it announces.