[ISN] [defaced-commentary] BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) Hacked

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Date: Sun Apr 29 2001 - 18:52:13 PDT

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Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:05:10 -0400
From: McIntyre <McIntyreat_private>
To: defaced-commentaryat_private
Subject: [defaced-commentary] BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) Hacked

Today at 3pm ET, the hacker group Silver Lords defaced a Web site for
one of the most respected news organization in the world. The British
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Web site www.monitor.bbc.co.uk which is
titled "BBC Monitoring" and described as "BBC Worldwide Monitoring
draws upon radio, television and news agency reports from over 1000
sources in over 140 countries" was defaced with the same, standard
graphic Silver Lords places on all their defacements.

http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/2001/04/29/www.monitor.bbc.co.uk/

To our knowledge, this is the first time a BBC Web site has been defaced.

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