Danish websites hacked
2006-02-08 20:43
Stockholm - Suspected Muslim hackers have
broken into about 600 Danish websites to post threats and
protest against satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, an
internet monitoring group said on Wednesday.
If pages outside Denmark, where the cartoons first appeared,
were included, then the hack attacks numbered about 1 000, the
Zone-H web site, 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 in garbled English.
The page had been added to a website run by photographer
Thomas Jorgensen and below was a photo of a mannequin doll
painted in the Danish flag and hanging from its neck.
"I will have to report it to the police," Jorgensen told
Reuters.
Jorgensen, who did not know his site had been hacked, said
he would also get in touch with the company that provided the
server which hosted his website.
Other websites such as for left-wing progressive publisher
Informationsforlag had a message in Arabic and a small English
translation.
"Everything except our prophet - Allahu Akbar - Jihad is
our way," the text said.
The websites appeared to be randomly hacked and did not
necessarily have anything to do with the cartoons which have
enraged Muslims around the world.
The websites listed by Zone-H did not include big Danish
government websites such as www.denmark.dk or the newspaper
Jyllands-Posten, which first printed the cartoons in September.
"What came out from the survey is what Zone-H very much
expected: the use of the internet as an instrument to spread out
cyber protests 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 web-servers, it said.