DATE:
2010-02
AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
Falkland Islands / UK
AFFECTED SITES:
penguin-news.com
EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
Defaced, hacked
SOURCE COUNTRY:
Argentina
ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
n/a
TYPE OF ATTACK:
Hack, defacement
ATTACK SPECIFICS:
n/a
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Falkland Islands newspaper hacked. Still recovering months later. Argentinian hackers defaced the site with their coutnry's flag "after the Argentine government expressed outrage at a British oil exploration in the South Atlantic." (3) This is aprt of a long dispute between Argentina and the United Kingdom over whose territory the Falklands are. From around the same time: "In February 2010, the Argentine government announced that ships traversing Argentine territorial waters en route to the Falklands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands would require a permit, as part of a dispute over British oil exploration near the Falklands." (2)
URLS:
1. http://www.penguin-news.com/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands
3. http://www.nccgroup.com/media-room/latest-news/details/10-02-22/Argentines_hack_into_islands_paper.aspx?ReturnURL=%2Fmedia-room%2Flatest-news.aspx
4. http://www.takungpao.com/news/10/02/22/_IN-1218206.htm
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