Ukranian President Yushchenko's Official Website Hacked
30th Oct 2007
Hackers from several countries launched a massive attack and temporarily disabled the website of the Ukraine's president Viktor Yushchenko, his office said Tuesday. A Russian nationalist group claimed responsibility.
The attacks from servers in Russia, Britain, Kazakhstan, the United States, Israel and Ukraine began Sunday night and continued through Tuesday afternoon.
More than 18,000 attacks have been carried out, temporarily blocking access to the site. The website president.gov.ua could not be accessed Tuesday night.
A radical Russian nationalist youth group, the Eurasian Youth Movement, claimed responsibility for the attacks in their blog, saying it was their retaliation for Yushchenko's office's alleged attack of their on website, which had been disabled.
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