Hacker Hits Nuclear Commission Website
Hackers penetrated the Web site for the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission this week, replacing text and graphics with photos of a nuclear explosion.
The organization, which acts as a nuclear safety watchdog in Canada, reports that there was a security breach on Wednesday, February 7, 2007 during the afternoon.
Commission spokesman Aurele Gervais said “they had the Web site down within five minutes of being alerted to the attack.”
He adds “they are not sure when the hacker broke into the site or how long he or she was there.”
Gervais would only say that the news release section of the site was replaced with graphic images but would not describe them.
It was widely reported in the Canadian press that the images were of a nuclear explosion.
The Ottawa Citizen newspaper published a color photo of one of the pages that had been tampered with but the photo is not shown online.
Aurele Gervais said the attack was limited to the website’s public media section and “there’s been no internal information that’s been compromised.”
Source: Windsor Star
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February 9th, 2007
sick, sick people. There has been increased security at our nuclear plants here in Canada, especially in Ontario since 9/11. I really wish we could do away with nuclear power and switch to safer renewable energy sources.