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Hackers attack French Press

by on16 January 2015


Instant surrender
  

The security systems of France’s leading newspapers have surrendered to attacks which appear to have come from people who think that shooting journalists is the best way to spread a religion of love.

Websites Le Parisien, L’Express, 20 Minutes, France Inter, Mediapart and Marianee have all faced problems as users see error messages when trying to get on the sites.

The cyberattacks come in the wake of what officials have called an “unprecedented” amount of hacking since the shootings in Paris last week. French websites have been hit by 19,000 cyberattacks since the Paris shootings, officials said.

But it does not appear to be just the press. French military and government sites have also been of line but it seems that the hackers also had a go at pizza and gardening shops.

Many of the sites were hacked to show a message reading “The Islamic State Stay Inchallah. Free Palestine. Death To France. Death To Charlie.”

Anonymous vowed to hack Islamist websites shortly after the shootings, and supporters of the shooters have apparently struck back.

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