Voice of Democracy (Vietnam) hacked - January 2006

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DATE:
2006-01

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
Vietnam

AFFECTED SITES:
ptdcvn.org

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
n/a

SOURCE COUNTRY:
Vietnam

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
n/a

TYPE OF ATTACK:
hack

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
Site went offline, then when it came back up the articles were gone and a line of text below the title said "This is the Web page of liars." (1)

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
"Less than a month after its launch on International Human Rights Day, a Vietnamese pro-democracy Web site has been forced to close following an apparent hacker attack." (1) Site is the "Voice of Democracy."

URLS:
1. http://www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam_website-20060103.html?searchterm=None

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