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Re: Altavista Hacked ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Steffora)
Mon Sep 1 15:45:57 1997

Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 12:28:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Philip Steffora <steffora@av-ops.pa.dec.com>
To: "George J. Broadfoot III" <george@laserlink.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199709011910.PAA07323@narya.laserlink.net>


Thanks for the info, I will investigate this.

-phil


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  Philip Steffora       steffora@pa.dec.com
  Operations Mgr.       AltaVista - Digital Equip Corp
    DTN: 543-3227       415/ 617-3227
DTN FAX: 543-3200       415/ 617-3200
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On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, George J. Broadfoot III wrote:

> 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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