Newspapers under hacker attacks

Date: June 23, 2006
Source: seacoastonline.com


The Internet sites of three Maine newspapers were hacked into during the weekend by someone who replaced legitimate Web news pages with replacement pages saying, "You are owned."

The hackers broke into the Web sites of MaineToday.com early Saturday morning, according to MaineToday.com President Joe Michaud.

MaineToday.com operates a Web site under its own name as well as Internet sites for the Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.

The hackers, who were apparently out of Brazil, managed to find security weaknesses that enabled them to break into the sites at about 2 a.m. Saturday, Michaud said. The problem was discovered at about 6:30 a.m. and the sites for the most part were back to normal a few hours later.
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