Wednesday, 5. February 2003
Topic: - on February 5, 2003 at 11:14:18 AM CET
NASA Reportedly Hacked Hours After Columbia Was Lost
A hacker group attacked and struck down servers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory just hours after the Columbia space shuttle was lost, according to a London-based security company.
The attack, allegedly pulled off by a group calling itself the Trippin Smurfs, temporarily staggered nine servers running on the Sun Solaris operating system, according to a report issued by mi2g, a security firm based in England. The attack was fired off as a protest against the U.S.'s position on Iraq.
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