MI5’S WEBSITE HACKED!
submitted by markodonoghue on 07 August 2009
The hackers rigged the website so that the identity of visitors could be stolen and viruses downloaded on to their machines.
The people responsible, a group who call themselves 'Team Elite', would also have been able to discover the identity of anyone using Britain's Intelligence services website and find out every other website they had visited years earlier. This is a very big embarrassment for MI5, who are responsible for monitoring threats inside the UK.
One computer expert said it was “a schoolboy error”.
Tory MP Patrick Mercer said “Having potentially highly-classified information available to hackers is deeply concerning. The identity of agents and informers in terror groups such as Al Qaeda are held by MI5".
Apparently the security flaw has been fixed.
Team Elite have previously hacked into the World Health Organisation’s website and attacked credit card giant Visa’s computer systems.
Hackers are getting closer and closer towards their goal and I think it's about time major companies step up their game on preventing these security flaws.
Submitted by:
Mark O'Donoghue
Associated Links:
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/117213/EXCLUSIVE-Hackers-break-into-MI5-s-website
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