[Linux-Anyway] Hackers in Russia Defaced State Department Web Site
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- Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 09:24:07 -0700 (PDT)
Reuters
Hackers in Russia Defaced State Department Web Site
October 04, 2002 04:24 PM
ET
http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=politicsnews&StoryID=1536868
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hackers in Russia were behind obscenities
scrawled on a State Department Web site, a senior State
Department official said on Friday.
The obscenities appeared on Wednesday on the Web site
www.usinfo.state.gov, which is designed to provide information to
computer users outside the United States. The State Department
closed the site down for a time but it was up and running again
on Friday afternoon.
"The indications are it was something coming out of a group of
hackers in Russia. It was not particularly political, as far as
we can tell," said the official, who asked not to be named.
The State Department gave no details about messages that were
inserted onto the Web site.
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