“We have hacked you because your lack of support of Syrian government and militant groups backed by that government. Al Jazeera has been spreading lies. We’re compelled to do so on behalf of the Syrian people.” [GIZMODO]
THERE WAS SOME confusion about whether it was the .com or .net variation, but there was no doubt that Al Jazeera’s popular website was hacked.
The website of Qatar-based satellite news network Al Jazeera was apparently hacked on Tuesday by Syrian government loyalists for what they said was the television channel’s support for the “armed terrorist groups and spreading lies and fabricated news”. A Syrian flag and statement denouncing Al Jazeera’s “positions against the Syrian people and government” were posted on the Arabic site of the channel in response to its coverage of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad which began in March last year.
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THERE WAS SOME confusion about whether it was the .com or .net variation,
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As of this moment, (1450 PDT) the .net version is operational, and the .com version is not. The .com version appears to have been affected by the hack, but whether the .net version has or not, I don’t know. I don’t read Arabic, and wouldn’t trust any automated translator to make sense of such a difficult language (difficult for English-speakers, at least). Apparently, they use different servers for the different domains.
Interestingly, the .com version is the foreign language (IOW, not Arabic) version.
It’s probably just coincidence, since who knows when it was last updated, but the second most recent entry in my AJ RSS feed is “Syrian jets strike town near Aleppo”.
That’s who these website crackers are working for.