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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Stop the War (UK) - January 2009


DATE:
2009-01

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
UK

AFFECTED SITES:
stopwar.org.uk

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
Website disabled for days.

SOURCE COUNTRY:
n/a

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
Pro-Israeli groups

TYPE OF ATTACK:
n/a

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
n/a

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
An attack brought down the website of UK antiwar group Stop the War, whose site was also attacked before protests of the Iraq War in 2003. At the same time the attack occurred, videos were put up on YouTube announcing the cancellation of a scheduled demonstration. Posts to the group's FaceBook page carried the same false information.

URLS:
1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/4226691/Stop-the-Wars-website-disabled-by-pro-Israeli-hackers.html


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