Hackers Attack Senate Web Site

Sat., June 12, 1999

Computer hackers attacked the U.S. Senate’s main Web site Friday, the second such electronic assault on the high-profile Internet page in just over two weeks.

The hackers defaced the Web page, www.senate.gov, but left its overall look similar to how it normally appears. For example, they left untouched a link to a “today in history” feature but substituted news that “Senator Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., was assassinated.”

In an obvious taunt directed at the FBI, they changed part of the page to read: “You can stop one, but you cannot stop all.”

They also left messages supporting infamous hacker Kevin Mitnick, who will be sentenced Monday in Los Angeles to 46 months in prison for computer fraud, and for Eric Burns, 19, who was indicted last month in northern Virginia on three counts of computer intrusion.

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