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  • ANKARA: Hackers Attack Turkey-Based Armenian Newspaper, Foundation S

    HACKERS ATTACK TURKEY-BASED ARMENIAN NEWSPAPER, FOUNDATION SITES

    Hurriyet Daily News
    Feb 12 2010
    Turkey

    The Web site of Turkey's leading Armenian newspaper was hacked in
    the early hours on Friday. Hackers also attacked the Web sites of
    two Turkey-based foundations.

    Hackers identifying themselves as "AK Hacker" overtook the Agos
    Web site and put up an image of Ogun Samast, the alleged murderer
    of the former editor in chief of the daily, Hrant Dink. The image
    was accompanied by a text that criticized opposition to the ruling
    party and stated the act of hacking was "an action that will go on
    to spread like poison to others who oppose the current powers."

    The International Hrant Dink Foundation and the Art for Peace
    Foundation were also hacked around the same time. An official from
    the Hrant Dink foundation told the Hurriyet Daily News that they were
    uncertain if the site was attacked by the same hackers.

    An attempt to view the Art for Peace Web site led to an error page
    bearing the same redirect address as the Agos Web site.

    Threatening messages

    The note on the Agos site also made a chilling threat given the murder
    of Hrant Dink: "If you do not fix your reporting in the way we see fit,
    there will be new Ogun Samasts and new Hrant Dinks."

    Here's a translation of the full text on the hacked site:

    "You either love or you leave it. Or like the traitor Hrant, you die
    and disappear. You are you. You know yourself as much as we know you.

    You lived through what you deserved and it will continue as such. This
    act take on behalf of the Turkish flag, which is not on your Web site,
    and in the name of the Turkish Republic, will continue to spread like
    poison to others who oppose the current powers and everyone who opposes
    will be affected as such. If you do not change your articles and your
    words and your actions along the lines that we see fit, then there
    will be new Ogun Samasts and new Hrant Dinks. Thinking you're smart is
    your biggest ignorance. Just as the traitors who have given up their
    Turkishness will one day be expelled from the borders of this country,
    Turkey will be cleansed thanks to the current powers in Turkey and all
    slander campaigns will be unsuccessful and inconclusive from now on.

    "GAME OVER!

    "Who are we?

    "Hate, loathsome, Muco, Mr. Bond

    "Do you remember?

    "Ak Hackers"
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