Home Office's new 'sex scandal' after hackers link website to Japanese pornography

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168095/Home-Offices-new-sex-scandal-hackers-link-website-Japanese-pornography.html

By Eddie Wrenn
The Daily Mail
07th April 2009

The consolation for Jacqui Smith is that at least it wasn't her husband 
to blame this time.

Richard Timney may have landed the Home Secretary in trouble by claiming 
two 'adult' movies on her MPs' expenses.

But it was a computer hacker rather than Miss Smith's husband who was up 
to no good with pornography yesterday.

The cyber-intruder managed to hijack a link which had been placed on the 
Home Office's website to an information page run by the Government's 
Technical Advisory Board, to provide information about the Office for 
Security and Counter Terrorism.

Instead of information about new EU surveillance powers, visitors were 
greeted with some hardcore Japanese pornography.

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