Royal Navy website attacked by Romanian hacker

[DorsetBoy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11711478

The Royal Navy's website has been hacked by a suspected Romanian hacker known as TinKode.

The hacker gained access to the website on 5 November using a common attack method known as SQL injection.

TinKode published details of the information he recovered, which included user names and passwords of the site's administrators.

A Royal Navy spokesperson confirmed the site had been compromised and said: "There has been no malicious damage."

They added that as a precaution the site has been "temporarily suspended" and that security teams were investigating how the hacker got access. They said no confidential information had been disclosed.

The Royal Navy website currently shows a static image on which is a black box bearing the text: "Unfortunately the Royal Navy website is undergoing essential maintenance. Please visit again soon."......... (more)

The salty types are not having a very good few months are they.

[gizmo71]

So did the French Navy surrender in sympathy?

[pctech]

Reckon we ought to build a white hat botnet called Trident to take people like this down eh.

[Rik]

A lot of nuclear subs are now going round in small circles I hear.