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Celebrity sites defaced by Brazilian hackers
News Computer crackers Prime Suspectz have defaced the official Web sites of actors Mel Gibson, Jennifer Aniston and Denzel Washington, leaving several love messages. The group, which leaves messages declaring Brazilian domination, recently defaced the...
[April 19, 2001, 9:38]
Radio site defaced by 'Soldier of Allah'
Blog A radio station website has been defaced by a hacker claiming to be a 'Soldier of Allah'. The Radio Basingstoke website was compromised on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, website co-owner and radio programmer Lee Williams told ZDNet UK on Friday.
[January 9, 2009, 15:25]
RIAA site defaced again
News Over the weekend, it had been defaced to include a faux announcement that it would "offer the latest albums for download from RIAA.org" and a small collection of MP3 files. For the third time in five weeks, the Recording Industry Association of...
[September 4, 2002, 7:50]
Yorkshire site defaced by angry local
News The Web site of a North Yorkshire town was defaced this week by a enraged local computer cracker intent on wreaking terrible revenge on the locality. The cracker defaced the front page of the www.ripon.co.uk, a site belonging to the 1400-year-old...
[September 8, 2000, 11:49]
Kevin Mitnick site defaced by hackers
News There were a whole bunch of customers, including myself, but my site was the only one defaced, so I was probably the target," Mitnick said. Of course it is embarrassing to be defaced — nobody likes it.
[August 22, 2006, 9:00]
Government sites defaced by anti-smoker
News A number of UK government Web sites were attacked and defaced this week by a cracker protesting against smoking cigarettes. The sites defaced were: www.ali.gov.uk, www.clevelandway.gov.uk, www.gist.gov.uk, www.tsc.gov.uk, www.woldsway.gov.uk, www...
[August 17, 2000, 10:00]
RIAA site defaced again
Talkback Who the hell do these people think they are? How dare they do this to their own customers. I refuse to buy any CD from these glutons and hope everyone would do the same. They really have a sick view of customer service.
[August 11, 2003, 0:28]
Celebrity sites defaced by Brazilian hackers
Talkback you make the brazilian hackers out like they are bad people.you, probably siting in your expensive leather chair and typing on your brand new laptop, make it seem like my country is full of bad people.most people who cant even dream of owning an...
[October 28, 2003, 12:24]
Petrol Crisis: OPEC Web site defaced
News The cracker responsible for the attack -- Fluxnyne -- defaced the site in order to draw attention to the worsening situation. The international price of petrol has resulted in British protests that have left three quarters of the UK's petrol...
[September 13, 2000, 9:01]
AP site defaced for Halloween
News However, instead of posting abuse or self-congratulatory gibberish, the group took the unusual decision to post poetry by nineteenth century literary legend Edgar Allen Poe.
[November 1, 1999, 10:01]
Government sites defaced in US, UK and Australia
News Government sites in the US, UK and Australia were reportedly hit by a single group of hackers Saturday in what has been described as the most systematic defacement of world-wide government servers on the Web.
[January 22, 2001, 12:24]
Details emerge of Microsoft website hack
News Details have emerged of an attack which defaced Microsoft's UK website. In addition, the defaced website was restored to its original content within hours. Hackers broke through the site's security, defacing it and replacing genuine content with a...
[July 2, 2007, 17:52]
McDonalds UK Web site hacked by fluffy bunny
News US fast food chain McDonalds saw its UK Web site hacked and defaced Wednesday by a computer cracker calling himself the Fluffy Bunny. The cracker broke into the company's Web server and defaced the Web site with a parody of the burger giant's...
[February 22, 2001, 11:29]
Crackers deface Burger King Web site
News The UK Web site belonging to fast food franchise Burger King was hacked and defaced yesterday by crackers who apparently prefer the taste of food at arch rival McDonalds. Last month its own site was hacked and defaced.
[March 2, 2001, 11:00]
Hackers target BT over ADSL delays
News BT's Web servers were defaced at the weekend by a computer hacker angry at the delayed rollout of ADSL across the UK. BT's prominent Internet search page http://search.bt.com was defaced by an enraged message from the hacker, going under the name...
[April 2, 2001, 11:55]
Security organisation's Web site hacked
News The UK arm of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) has admitted its Web site was hacked into and defaced earlier this month. According to a report on a hacking Web site, a hacker dubbed iskorpitx penetrated and defaced the ISSA Web...
[January 24, 2005, 14:20]
The Schmoozer: Last Straw for the evil hacker underground
News Mel Gibson was defaced, BT failed to connect, and you may have already won a free digital telly. Mel Gibson, Jennifer Aniston and Denzel Washington must be praying for help from the NHTCU, after their official Web sites were all defaced this week...
[April 20, 2001, 15:45]
Security firm RSA falls foul to DNS hack
News Computer security firm RSA has had one of its Web sites effectively defaced by computer criminals apparently keen to make a point about the insecurity of DNS (Domain Name System) authentication. By noon on Monday, http://www.rsa.com led to a...
[February 14, 2000, 16:19]
Cracker hits HSBC bank site
News The Web site of UK bank HSBC has been defaced by infamous UK cracker Herbless in protest of the government's refusal to tax petrol. The cracker recently defaced over 100 corporate Web sites in the UK in support of truck drivers protesting tax on fuel.
[September 20, 2000, 15:09]
Security company's Web site hacked
News Computer security firm Network Associates was left embarrassed after two of its corporate Web site were defaced Wednesday although it claims it is not its fault. A group calling itself Insanity Zine defaced the Brazilian homepages of two Network...
[November 30, 2000, 15:27]
