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Altavista Hacked ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George J. Broadfoot III)
Mon Sep 1 15:31:58 1997

From: "George J. Broadfoot III" <george@laserlink.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 15:09:29 +0000
Reply-to: george@laserlink.net

Anyone confirm that Altavista's home page was hacked today ?

About 
10:30 am EST I went there and found their "usual home page" included 
in a page that said hello to some hackers and had some small message 
about the page being hacked. When I got back to checking it at 15:00 
EST that page was gone and the "usual Altavista home page" had 
returned.
George J. Broadfoot III
VP of Operations
Laser Link Network Services, Inc.
610.566.2993 FAX 610.566.9093

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