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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Blog of Tunisian activist Sami Ben Gharbia hacked - October 2009

DATE:
2009-10

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
Tunisia

AFFECTED SITES:
samibengharbia.com

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
Content deleted

SOURCE COUNTRY:
n/a

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
Tunisian government

TYPE OF ATTACK:
Hack

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
n/a

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Tunisian political dissenter/activist Sami Ben Gharbia, director of Nawaat.org, had his blog hacked and all content removed.

URLS:
1. http://samibengharbia.com/2009/10/13/hello-world-im-hacked-again-and-again/
2. http://nawaat.org/portail/2009/10/21/cyber-repression-en-tunisie-le-blog-collectif-nawaatorg-de-nouveau-la-cible-des-pirates/

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