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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.
Copyright ⌐ 1996 CNET Inc. All rights reserved.