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HACKERS TAKE DOWN TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTRY WEBSITE
PanARMENIAN.Net
July 3, 2012 - 16:46 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The RedHack group this morning disclosed the
identities of hundreds of foreign bureaucrats and diplomats, Hurriyet
Daily News reported
The group had announced earlier that they were about to reveal
"something big," saying that the hacking had already been done and
that the authorities could do nothing about it.
Today, the group provided a link to a Dropbox file-sharing address,
which contained images of the identity cards the Turkish Foreign
Ministry has issued for foreign diplomats working in Turkey.
"Those who are revealed should get mad at the Foreign Ministry,
not us," RedHack said on its Twitter account.
The file dump did not include the ID cards given to the children of
foreign personnel. "These are only a part of the IDs we have obtained,"
the group said.
The hacking was apparently a bid to show the vulnerability of sensitive
documents to outside interference, as RedHack also tweeted: "Did
[the Foreign Ministry] issue IDs to foreign personnel for someone to
come and disclose them? They should look at their computers instead
of looking at Syria."
Socialist group RedHack brought down the Turkish Foreign Ministry
website on July 3 morning, replacing its contents with pictures
showing the Turkish prime minister embracing former Libyan dictator
Muammar Gaddafi and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The group also defaced the web page "https://public.mfa.gov.tr/"
by replacing the page's original contents with two large pictures,
one showing Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan embracing
killed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, and another showing him
embracing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
A title was placed above the pictures, reading: "Ministry of War
and Slavery, not Foreign Affairs." A caption for the pictures read:
"Brothers yesterday, enemies today."
PanARMENIAN.Net
July 3, 2012 - 16:46 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The RedHack group this morning disclosed the
identities of hundreds of foreign bureaucrats and diplomats, Hurriyet
Daily News reported
The group had announced earlier that they were about to reveal
"something big," saying that the hacking had already been done and
that the authorities could do nothing about it.
Today, the group provided a link to a Dropbox file-sharing address,
which contained images of the identity cards the Turkish Foreign
Ministry has issued for foreign diplomats working in Turkey.
"Those who are revealed should get mad at the Foreign Ministry,
not us," RedHack said on its Twitter account.
The file dump did not include the ID cards given to the children of
foreign personnel. "These are only a part of the IDs we have obtained,"
the group said.
The hacking was apparently a bid to show the vulnerability of sensitive
documents to outside interference, as RedHack also tweeted: "Did
[the Foreign Ministry] issue IDs to foreign personnel for someone to
come and disclose them? They should look at their computers instead
of looking at Syria."
Socialist group RedHack brought down the Turkish Foreign Ministry
website on July 3 morning, replacing its contents with pictures
showing the Turkish prime minister embracing former Libyan dictator
Muammar Gaddafi and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The group also defaced the web page "https://public.mfa.gov.tr/"
by replacing the page's original contents with two large pictures,
one showing Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan embracing
killed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, and another showing him
embracing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
A title was placed above the pictures, reading: "Ministry of War
and Slavery, not Foreign Affairs." A caption for the pictures read:
"Brothers yesterday, enemies today."