Canada: Hackers 'Kill' Quebec Premier

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/146875

By Elad Benari
Arutz Sheva
16/08/11

Hackers who attacked the website of a prominent Canadian newspaper early 
on Tuesday posted a false news item saying the Premier of the province 
of Quebec had died.

According to a report by the Reuters news agency, the newspaper whose 
website was attacked was the Quebec-based Le Devoir newspaper.

The fake item regarding the supposed death of Premier Jean Charest of a 
heart attack remained on the newspaper’s site for more than an hour and 
was repeated by Twitter users before engineers were able to delete it.

“We offer our most sincere apologies to the premier. Measures are being 
taken to find the person responsible for this crime,” the newspaper said 
on its website.

The newspaper has filed a complaint with police, which launched an 
investigation conducted by the information technology crime unit of the 
Montreal police.

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