Several Azerbaijani and Armenian sites attacked - February 2000

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DATE:
2000-02

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
Azerbaijan, Armenia

AFFECTED SITES:
aliyev.com and many others

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
n/a

SOURCE COUNTRY:
Azerbaijan, Armenia

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
n/a

TYPE OF ATTACK:
Hack, defacement

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
n/a

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
"after an ethnic Armenian in California launched Aliyev.com, a site that disseminated 'black propaganda' about then Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev, Azerbaijani hackers launched an attack against Armenian Internet sites that included National State Television H1, and several online resources about the Turkish massacre of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Armenians during World War I." ... "a counter-offensive was launched by a group of Armenian hackers, Liazor. ...the group threatened to take down the entire Azerbaijani Internet. Indeed, the websites of many large Internet users, including humanitarian organizations, in Azerbaijan were hacked, and the email connectiosn of major Azerbaijani newspapers disrupted." (1)

Hackers in the two countries have been warring ever since these events.

URLS:
1. http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav020807a.shtml

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