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Hackers take over Boston Police Department website; message cites handling of Occupy Boston protest
Source: Boston Globe
Hackers take over Boston Police Department website; message cites handling of Occupy Boston protest
02/03/2012 12:16 PM
By Martin Finucane and Colin A. Young, Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent
Boston police are working this morning to restore their website after it was apparently hacked by a person or group who who objected to the department’s handling of the Occupy Boston demonstration.
“It is unfortunate that someone would go to this extent to compromise BPDNews.com, a helpful and informative public safety resource utilized daily by community members seeking up-to-date news and information about important safety matters,” the department said in the statement.
The bpdnews.com website, normally a bright, colorful site with an upbeat tone despite its daily drumbeat of crime information, was replaced by another site titled “antisec,” headlined, “ANONYMOUS HACKS BOSTON POLICE WEBSITE IN RETALIATION FOR POLICE BRUTALITY AT OWS.”
In red letters on a black background, the site also proclaimed there was “plenty more mayhem to deliver.”
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02/03/2012 12:16 PM
By Martin Finucane and Colin A. Young, Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent
Boston police are working this morning to restore their website after it was apparently hacked by a person or group who who objected to the department’s handling of the Occupy Boston demonstration.
“It is unfortunate that someone would go to this extent to compromise BPDNews.com, a helpful and informative public safety resource utilized daily by community members seeking up-to-date news and information about important safety matters,” the department said in the statement.
The bpdnews.com website, normally a bright, colorful site with an upbeat tone despite its daily drumbeat of crime information, was replaced by another site titled “antisec,” headlined, “ANONYMOUS HACKS BOSTON POLICE WEBSITE IN RETALIATION FOR POLICE BRUTALITY AT OWS.”
In red letters on a black background, the site also proclaimed there was “plenty more mayhem to deliver.”
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Read more: http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2012/02/hackers-take-over-boston-police-department-website/mKzINebAXJWcv7uBZKZB0K/index.html
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they take your #sink, then you win. #almost #OWS #OccupyBoston #occupythesink
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