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Hackers hit Associated Press Web site
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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:51:59 -0600
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5202358.html?tag=mn_hd By Reuters March 21, 2001, 6:40 a.m. PT Update: NEW YORK--Computer hackers disabled the Web site of the Associated Press early on Wednesday, leaving various names such as Benny Hill and Punisher under a banner reading "Owned by HFURY" on the organization's home page. The news organization said its AP.org site was hacked about 2:19 AM ET. The site carries information about the AP's products and services. "Only the home page for the corporate site was affected," said Jack Stokes, a spokesman for the AP. "None of our news feeds to our subscribers were interrupted or affected." The company shut down the site from 4:35 AM ET to about 6:10 AM ET. "We are still trying to determine who might have hacked the site," said Stokes, referring to letters "Hfury" that appeared on the site. Dotcom Scoop, a newsgroup focused on events within the Internet and technology sectors, reported on its own site early Wednesday that the vandals were a Brazilian group which claims responsibility for a total of 134 Web site defacements. The incident follows other high-profile electronic break-ins, including two in January affecting Web sites of software giant Microsoft and an attack last October that tapped some of that company's secrets. U.S. government Web sites and the Vatican radio Web site have also been the object of such cyber vandalism in the recent past. ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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