[pchelpers] News:Hackers disrupt Swedish Web sites

Published: Jan. 27, 2008 at 12:52 PM
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Hackers have penetrated two Web
sites in Sweden featuring Internet shopping discount programs for
university students.

Although the hackers could have accessed information on nearly 1 million
students through the Mercenat-card and CSN-card sites, what information
they actually accessed remained unclear, The Local reported Sunday.

In messages left on the sites' homepages, the hackers wrote that they
carried out the attack simply to demonstrate the sites' weak security,
adding they didn't intend to use any of the information they had
accessed.

More here:
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/01/27/hackers_disrupt_swedish_web_sites/6209/
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