HACKER GROUP COMMANDEERS THE NEW YORK TIMES WEB SITE

Issue:  Security

The New York Times website was commandeered by hackers September 13 for 
about nine hours. Instead of seeing the NYTimes homepage, visitors saw a 
logo marked HFG with images of nude women and statements from the group 
that included criticism of the papers coverage of Kevin Mitnick, an 
imprisoned hacker. The FBI is investigating the incident. (You know, 
valuable advertising was blacked). "This is a much more destructive weekend 
to be doing this than normal," Nisenholtz said. "We were running 35 percent 
above normal on Saturday, and typically Sunday is twice as big as 
Saturday." A typical Sunday would see about 150,000 visitors to the Times 
site.

[SOURCE: New York Times (A12), AUTHOR: Amy Harmon]


<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/09/biztech/articles/14hack.html>

<http://www.2600.com/hackedphiles/nytimes/>


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