Several Armenian governmental (and other) sites hacked - August 2009

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DATE:
2009-08

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
Armenia

AFFECTED SITES:
taxservice.am, armeniadisapora.com, mineconomy.am, and many others

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
Defaced

SOURCE COUNTRY:
Azerbaijan, Turkey

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
n/a

TYPE OF ATTACK:
Hack, defacement

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
n/a

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Several Aermenian government and private websites hacked (more than 100 attacks on the Armenian State Tax Service, the Diaspora Ministry and the webmail for the Ministry of Economy.) Sites were defaced with English curse words, "the flags of Azerbaijan and Turkey, a map that shows the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan, and photos of victims from the 1988-1994 Nagorno-Karabakh war." (1)

URLS:
1. http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insightb/articles/eav081909a.shtml

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