Australia: Turkish Hackers Bring Down Insurer's Site
Asher Moses writes in The Sydney Morning Herald:
Customers of one of Australia's largest insurance companies fear their account information may have been compromised, after its website was hacked by "turkish defacers" this morning.More here.
AAMI, which offers general insurance, is scrambling to find out how a group calling itself the "Ay Yildiz Team" hijacked its website, replacing it with an anti-Israel message.
As of this morning the site was pulled offline for reasons unknown.
"We are Turkish defacers," part of the message read. "Hey Israel don't kill our children."
Searching the group's name, including the name of its apparent leader, "kerem125", reveals a litany of their other hacks, few of which targeted Australian websites.
When contacted at around 10:15am this morning, an AAMI spokesman said he did not know what had happened.
Note: This illustrates how the issue of weak website implementations continue to be a target for the unscrupulous.
posted by Fergie @ 7/19/2007 06:25:00 PM
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