Hacker deletes all content from University of Ottawa newspaper's website

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https://globalnews.ca/news/5452169/hacker-deletes-all-content-university-of-ottawa-newspaper-website/

By Christopher Whan
Global News
July 2, 2019

Editors at the University of Ottawa's student newspaper, The Fulcrum, were 
treated to an unpleasant surprise late Saturday night when all of the 
content on their website had been deleted and replaced with a single post 
making fun of the hack.

The one article left showed a photo of an unknown man giving the middle 
finger to the camera with the headline: “Anti-union rag gets its entire 
website DELETED.”

“It was a huge shock, everyone was in a bit of a panic,” said Matt 
Gergyek, editor-in-chief of The Fulcrum.

According to Gergyek, as the newspaper is run by students, the majority of 
the staff are gone during the summer months with a skeleton crew of 
editors and freelancers there to update the web. The president and general 
manager were in Ottawa at the time.

Gergyek himself is in Hamilton for the summer and was out with friends in 
Toronto when he learned about the hack from a staffer in Saskatchewan.

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