Hacker attacks Costa Rican president’s website
Monday, 09 November 2009 17:08
A hacker attacked the Costa Rican president’s official website, slightly altering the site’s content and forcing officials to take it down, the office of the president said.
The hacker launched the attack around 9.30 a.m. Wednesday, ‘taking advantage of a weakness in the system, partially altering the website’s content’, the office said in a statement.
The hacker placed a Nicaraguan flag and text that said, ‘a Nica came through here’, the La Nacion newspaper reported in its online edition Thursday.
Authorities, however, did not provide details on what the hacker did.
The government said the attack on the website occurred while it was being upgraded and linked to social networking sites in an effort to ‘improve citizens’ communications tools’.
The website was taken down until information technology experts can secure it and try to determine where the hacker attack originated, the authorities said.
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