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Sunday, August 8, 2010

ChristopherPitts.net (USA) hacked - August 2009

DATE:
2009-08

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
USA

AFFECTED SITES:
christopherpitts.net

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
Hacked, content deleted

SOURCE COUNTRY:
China

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
n/a

TYPE OF ATTACK:
Hack

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
n/a

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Blogger reported being hacked after writing "several seemingly benign posts on Shanghai." "Someone managed to enter my site and delete all of these posts." (1)

URLS:
1. http://wordpress.org/support/topic/hacked-censored-in-china

Posted by  DoSWatch at 5:25 PM
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