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Article: Washtech.com Web Site Hacked
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 29, 2002
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Computer hackers attacked the Web site Washtech.com yesterday
evening, replacing content on the news site's home page with taunts
to the site's administrators and greetings to fellow hackers. The
attack occurred around 6 p.m., and the bogus content on the home page
was visible for about 20 minutes before administrators could shut the
site down.
As of last night, officials at Washtech, a Web site for technology
news that operates alongside washingtonpost.com, did not know how the
attack was conducted or when the Web site would be back online. At
about 8:20 p.m., the main page of Washtech was rudimentarily rebuilt
with a few headlines and links.
"As soon as we learned about it, we took the ...