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Danish websites hacked over Mohammad cartoons

Thursday February 09th 2006, 12:37 pm
Filed under: Newspapers

Hackers have broken into about 600 Danish websites to post threats and protest against satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, an internet monitoring group said Wednesday. If pages outside Denmark, where the cartoons first appeared, are included, then the hack attacks numbered about 1,000, the Zone-H website, www.zone-h.org, said. Zone-H tracks attacks on websites and listed the sites which had been hacked. ‘Danish, you’r D3ad,’ one page said. The graffiti had been added to a website run by photographer Thomas Jorgensen and included a photo of a mannequin painted to resemble the Danish flag and hung from its neck. A website belonging to left-wing progressive publisher Informationsforlag was vandalised with a message in Arabic and a small English translation: ‘Everything except our prophet - Allahu Akbar - Jihad is our way.’ The websites appeared to have been randomly hacked and did not necessarily have anything to do with the cartoons that have enraged Muslims around the world. ‘What came out from the survey is what Zone-H very much expected: the use of the Internet as an instrument to spread out cyberprotests related to what happens in the worldwide context,’ Zone-H wrote. Several groups of hackers from different Muslim countries had united to produce the greatest amount of damage to Danish and, more generally, Western webservers, Zone-H claimed. (Reuters, CNet News,February 09, 2006)

Newspaperindex.com has also recieved mails from hackers and last week the newspaperindex forum was hacked. Today we recieved this emial:

We demand you take down those pictures posted on this link http://blog.newspaperindex.com/2005/12/10/un-to-investigate-jyllands-posten-racism/

Or we will hack the ~~fuck~~ out of your website. We have shutdown 600 websites in the past 3 days and are not afraid to retaliate against your site as well. If you want proof we shut down these sites, here is a direct link http://www.zone-h.org/en/news/read/id=205987/

You have been warned and have 24 hours to comply before we deface your website. It’s your choice, we are offering you the right to CHOOSE.

~NSnipERz TEam~!

HACK THE WORLD!