The Irish Catholic Newspaper Hacked Online
It seems to be an almost daily occurrence in which I read of yet another Christian website attacked by hackers. From what I’ve noticed It does seem to be predominantly Catholic websites; the most recent of which was the official World Youth Day website.
Today it was the turn of the The Irish Catholic – Ireland’s biggest and best-selling Catholic newspaper since 1888 – although it seems to have recovered now.
I do worry about hackers and as a consequence ensure that I back-up as regularly as I can be bothered. I console myself in the fact that this is such a piffling niche blog, I would seriously doubt that it would attract the ire of hackers, but you never know.
The Irish Catholic newspaper believes its coverage of Irish government tensions with the Vatican provoked a cyber attack on its website.
It is now considering contacting police over a hacking incident on Sunday, which replaced text on the homepage and referred to a “false religion”.
The replacement message read: “You. Got. Taken. Site off-line.