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US government sites hacked by 'Mujihadeen'

A new cyberterrorist threat?

By Graham Hayday

Published: 3 December 2001 08:45 GMT

Two US government sites were hacked late last week by a group calling themselves "mujihadeens".

The hackers defaced the home page of the NOAA Office of Performance Computing and Communications and a page operated by the National Human Genome Research Institute, according to US reports.

The pages were defaced with the flag of Saudi Arabia and a message in Urdu which translates as: "Allah is the greatest of all... Americans be prepared to die."

The attackers called themselves "mujihadeens" and threatened further cyberterrorism.

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