Following a cyber attack by hacker group “Anonymous” last week the Boston Police Department took down their website www.bpdnews.com. As we told you in a post last week, the group gained access to the server hosting the website and defaced the front page. While an official investigation into the attack was occurred, and while administrators [...]
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Anonymous Attacked Multiple Departments
More information has come forward about the hacker group known as Anonymous’ attacks on police department websites. We learned yesterday that BPDNews.com, the official public information website of the Boston Police, had been hacked by the group. The group defaced the site and left a message including a music video offending police officers on the [...]
BPDNews.com Hacked
The Boston Police have confirmed that their public information website www.bpdnews.com was hacked earlier today. The malicious attack on the website took down the department’s content and replaced it with a music video degrading towards police. At this time the website is still down while the BPD technical staff works to fix the issue. In [...]
BPD Target of Anonymous Attack
The Boston Police have announced that department member’s information may have been compromised during a computer hacking attack. In an advisory to all personnel, BPD officials advise members to change their password on department system, specifically the website of the Boston Police Patrolman’s Association. Officials also state that any member who was affected in the [...]
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