Hackers vandalize HSBC Web site

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LONDON (September 21, 2000 7:29 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) -
A computer vandal has attacked several Web site pages of the
London-based bank HSBC, which announced the defacement on Wednesday
and assured customers their records were secure.

The vandal posted a picture of Prime Minister Tony Blair on the bank's
British home page alongside a statement supporting the recent
crippling fuel protests by truckers and others demanding lower fuel
prices.

An HSBC spokesman said Wednesday that the violated Web site was
maintained by a third-party company, which he refused to name. Online
banking services, where customers can make transactions and access
their accounts, are maintained by HSBC internally.

The spokesman said no transaction information was affected, though he
confirmed some of the bank's Web pages in Greece and Spain had been
violated.

The defacement is the latest in a series of Web site attacks that have
occurred.

On Sept. 13 OPEC's Web site was defaced by an online vandal apparently
upset about the worldwide attention being paid to the organization
over soaring oil prices. The defacement was a written statement
disparaging the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

A similar action was taken against OPEC's Web site in June, according
to attrition.org., a Web site that monitors and logs Internet
vandalism.

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