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Hackers Bring Down Panama Assembly's Web Site

Via Reuters.

Internet hackers crashed the Web site of Panama's National Assembly and briefly posted an American flag there, four months after the legislature elected as its leader a man accused of murdering a U.S. soldier.

Officials at the assembly, declining to be quoted by name, said the site, www.asamblea.gob.pa, has been down since January 9, when a U.S. flag briefly appeared there. One said the cyber attack almost certainly came from the United States.

Pedro Miguel Gonzalez was elected president of Panama's legislature in September, despite being wanted in the United States for the 1992 murder of U.S. Army Sgt. Zac Hernandez.

His candidature was strongly opposed by Washington, which warned the move would hurt relations between the two countries.

posted by Fergie @ 1/21/2008 05:19:00 PM