Hacker vandalizes AOL site 
By Janet Kornblum
November 25, 1996, 3:30 p.m. PT 

                An America Online site featuring news about the
                O.J. Simpson civil trial was the target of an
                apparently random hacker attack today. 

                Hackers broke into the Court TV site on AOL
                either late last night or early today. 

                "The tech people came in and said, 'We've been
                hacked,'" said Craig Matters, editor of the law
                center at Court TV, confirming an anonymous tip
                to CNET. 

                AOL could not immediately comment on whether
                other AOL sites were hacked. 

                Court TV's technical staff have spent the day fixing
                the hack but as of 3 p.m. PT, several areas were
                still not working. When a user clicked onto the
                area with information about the O.J. Simpson civil
                case, a screen popped up with the words, "This
                area is under construction," and beside it the
                phrase, "It's a PIC of OLAF." 

                The Court TV Web site on the Internet was
                unaffected. 

                This was not the first time that Court TV has been
                hacked on AOL, according to Matters. "It's the
                second time it's happened in the last couple of
                months," he said. 

                That's not counting the occasions when hackers
                have tried and failed to break in, sometimes calling
                Court TV employees to try and talk them out of
                their passwords. 

               
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