[Moderator: Article on this can be found on CNN, LATimes, NYTimes, MSNBC, news.com, Washington Post, ZDnet, AP, and others.] Forwarded From: William Knowles <erehwonat_private> Mirror of the hacked page at: http://24.0.214.250/~comega/nyt/index.html NEW YORK (AP) [9.13.98] -- The Web page of The New York Times was hacked Sunday morning by a group supporting imprisoned hacker Kevin Mitnick. An editor discovered the page had been altered at 7:50 a.m., and the page was taken down to be repaired, said Nancy Nielsen, a Times spokeswoman. ``The material was so offensive,'' she said. The Times contacted the FBI, she said. In a mishmash of creative spelling and vague threats posted on a black background, a group calling itself HFG, or ``Hacking for Girlies,'' ridiculed several members of the Times staff. It took special interest in reporter John Markoff, who wrote ``TakeDown,'' a book detailing the search for Mitnick, convicted of computer-related fraud charges, whose imprisonment since 1995 has been a cause celebre in the hacker community. ``Do you have nightmares about helping imprison Kevin?'' they wrote. ``Knowing that your lies and deceit helped bring down this injustice?'' Nielson said Markoff had been the target of hackers before, but there had been no attacks in ``quite a while.'' HFG buried additional comments within the source code, the written computer instructions which produced the replacement page. Those comments were less threatening, lacked the creative spellings and included quotes from Alfred Tennyson, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Voltaire. HFG also said they hacked the page because they were bored and wanted to make people laugh. -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Repent Security Incorporated [www.repsec.com]
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