Hackers Hit London Stock Exchange Website Alert Service

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The Telegraph.co.uk (props, DJ Technocrat).

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The London Stock Exchange is investigating a suspected attack on its
website by hackers that has disrupted an alerts service used by more than
14,000 private investors.

The attackers set up hundreds of thousands of erroneous alerts, overloading
the LSE website and disrupting the service for legitimate users.

The attack has left the service - which alerts investors when a company in
its portfolio makes a stock exchange announcement or when a share price
moves outside set parameters - paralysed for almost 48 hours.

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More:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/06/20/cnlse120.
xml

- - ferg

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