The website of the Women’s Resource Centre has been hacked by a pro-Isis group and its homepage replaced with the message “I love isis and Jihad”.

The umbrella body for women’s charities in the UK found that its website had been removed and instead messages saying “I love Isis and Jihad” and “Je suis Isis” appeared, as well as a video showing distressing scenes.

Isis, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, is a fundamentalist rebel group which controls terrority in the Middle East, and has announced an ambition to create a worldwide "caliphate" called the Islamic State.

The charity, who say the attack happened on Wednesday 21 January, is working to fix the problem and has replaced the home page with a maintenance message.

Vivienne Hayes, the charity’s chief executive, was quoted in the Guardian as saying: “We have no idea why we were targeted. Our work is nationally based and we have no international links.”

The page said it was hacked by Team System DZ, who claim to operate in Algeria.

A spokeswoman from the charity told Civil Society News that the hackers had created a redirect from the site to its own promotional material and that the charity has had to go through the hosting company and stop this redirect from taking place.

She said that the charity’s services have been disrupted as they cannot take the bookings that they would usually take through the site, and it is costing them time and resources to get it resolved. She said that the charity is having to restore all the files that it previously had on its website.

She said that restoring the service would be a case of “trial and error”. She said none of the charity's employees were"particularly technical", and “no one here has been hacked before”.

Click on the images below to see the hacked website.