Hackers reroute Hamas site to porn

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By Reuters
March 6, 2001, 2:00 p.m. PT

Hackers invaded the Internet site of the Muslim militant group Hamas
to make it show pornography Tuesday, after the fundamentalist
organization claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed
three Israelis. Web surfers trying to access Hamas.org were rerouted
automatically to a pay-for-view pornographic Web site. Sheikh Ahmed
Yassin, spiritual leader of the political wing of Hamas, accused
Israeli intelligence of being behind what appeared to be the latest
attack in an Israeli-Arab cyberwar on the sidelines of a 5-month-old
Palestinian uprising.

Hamas' military wing, the Izz el-deen al-Qassam brigade, said in a
statement that one of its members carried out the suicide bombing
Sunday in the Israeli seaside city of Netanya. No one claimed
responsibility for hacking into Hamas' Web site, which usually carries
information about the group opposed to Israeli-Palestinian
peacemaking. Yassin said Hamas would seek advice from Internet
specialists to block any hacking in the future.

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