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April 09, 2008, 06:53 AM ET
Malicious Hackers Send Users of Community College's Home Page to Porn Site
Some users who tried to view Blue Mountain Community College’s Web site this week saw pornographic images instead. A computer attacker had redirected one of the Oregon college’s Web addresses to a site promising “adult webcam girls.”
The incident happened while administrators were switching to a new Web address, bluecc.edu Malicious hackers hijacked the old address and set it so that users who had bookmarked the old address, or who found the site through a Google search, got a surprise, according to a report in the East Oregonian.
The problem has now been corrected, and officials say no sensitive information was breached. —Jeffrey R. Young
Categories: Security
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