Aussie activists tell Nike they didn't do it

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Source: AAP | Published: Friday June 23, 12:08 PM

An Australian-based activist organisation has denied involvement in a
brazen cyber attack on the Nike corporate website to promote the
planned disruption of a World Economic Forum summit in Melbourne days
before the Olympics.

The FBI is attempting to track down the hackers who took over the
footwear and clothing giant's website at nike.com for more than 19
hours from Wednesday afternoon until about noon yesterday.

Hundreds of thousands of visitors to Nike were greeted with the
message 'Global justice is coming - prepare now' and a link to a
website run by the Melbourne activist group, S11 Alliance at
www.s11.org.

The anti-globalisation activist group is organising widespread
demonstrations and blockades during the World Economic Forum
Asia-Pacific Economic Summit in Melbourne from September 11 to 13.

Nike spokeswoman Corby Casler said the FBI had been called in to
investigate the attack which shut down the companies main e-commerce
site.

"We don't think it'll be too hard to find out who did it," said Ms
Casler, adding "Knowing who did it and being able to prove it are two
different things."

Phone calls and e-mails to the S11 Alliance today were not returned
but in a statement issued on its website, the Alliance said it "was
not responsible for the redirection of the Nike website".

"The S11 alliance has no knowledge of the identity, whereabouts,
motives, or methods used by the disablers of the Nike Corporations'
website," the statement said.

Hits on the activist site have skyrocketed from a low of 57 an hour
before the Nike site was hacked to a high of 66,000 an hour during the
hijacking. The S11 Alliance said hits are "going through the roof"
with more than 880,000 since the Nike site was re-directed.

'This site's administrators have no idea how or why the nike.com page
was redirected to s11.org and do not condone this action, however we
do thank Nike for the extra hits,' said an S11 disclaimer.

Nike is listed on the S11 Alliance site as one of the multinational
companies attending the WEF Summit in Melbourne. Others include BHP,
Commonwealth Bank, Dow Corning, Dupont, Exxon-Mobil, General Motors
Holden, McDonald's, Microsoft, Monsanto, Nestle, Publishing &
Broadcasting Ltd, Rio Tinto, Shell, Siemans and Western Mining.

S11, which apparently stands for September 11 - the date the WEF
summit begins, is a hub for organising civil disobedience and protest
action during the economic summit. Anti-globalisation protests almost
shut down the World Trade Organisation meeting in Seattle last
December.

In April this year there were violent demonstrations against the
International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Washington DC.

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