MSN hacked and cream-pied down under

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By Nick Farrell

Wed Apr 22 2009, 12:39

SOFTWARE GIANT Microsoft's MSN website was hijacked by hackers who redirected the outfit's New Zealand traffic to another website.

Visitors to the MSN news website www.msn.co.nz were sent off to another page where "Microsoft New Zealand hacked by Peace Crew" was pasted above a snap of Bill Gates with cream pie on his face.

The hackers hit web hosting company Domainz, which hosts the MSN website, and they redirected its traffic to the fake website.

It is believed that the hackers were a pro-Palestinian group from Turkey. µ

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Comments

Teentsy Little Factual Error

Domainz is a DNS registrar, not a Web-hosting company.

posted by : Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 24 April 2009 Complain about this comment

nick is a racist jerk

the hacker is believed to be Nasrallah himself. he will get palastine back by stealing M$ traffic

posted by : ali, 23 April 2009 Complain about this comment

ROFL

You do know what 'cream-pied' means on explicit web sites ROFL

Way to damn funnnny

posted by : P!NG, 22 April 2009 Complain about this comment

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