Topic: W A R - on March 29, 2003 at 1:23:09 AM CET
FBI to investigate Al-Jazeera Web hijack
Visitors to both the Arabic and English versions of the Al-Jazeera Web site on Thursday were greeted with an American flag and a pro-US message, the work of an apparent online vandal.
The FBI has opened an investigation into the attack on Al-Jazeera's Web site, a representative with the bureau has said. The Middle Eastern news service was the victim of a domain hijacking. The actual defacement appeared on a free Web site service provided by NetWorld Connections. Technically known as a "redirect," the hack caused Web browsers that attempted to go to www.aljazeera.net -- as well as the English-language site -- to be surreptitiously redirected to the content hosted on NetWorld's servers.
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