From: Subject: The Associated Press: Hackers Force Pa. to Shut State Web Site Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:22:12 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0000_01C85130.5039BB60"; type="text/html" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0000_01C85130.5039BB60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Location: file://C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\The%20Associated%20Press%20Hackers%20Force%20Pa_%20to%20Shut%20State%20Web%20Site.htm The Associated Press: Hackers Force Pa. to Shut State = Web Site

Hackers Force Pa. to Shut State Web Site

January 4, 2008

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) =E2=80=94 Hackers infiltrated Pennsylvania's = government Web=20 site on Friday, forcing administrators to shut down nearly the entirely = site for=20 several hours.

Hackers broke into the pages of the departments of Labor and = Industry,=20 Education, and Military and Veterans Affairs, as well as the = Pennsylvania=20 Lottery, said Mia DeVane said, a spokeswoman for the Office of=20 Administration.

DeVane said state information technology officers also learned Friday = that=20 four other states and a university had been attacked in a similar = manner.

It wasn't immediately clear which other state Web sites were = attacked. A=20 message left with the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis = Center=20 seeking comment wasn't immediately returned.

Investigators tracked the source of the attack to a domain registered = in=20 China, she said.

DeVane said there was no reason to think anyone's personal data had = been=20 compromised or that any damage occurred when a hacker "got into what we = would=20 say is a back door."

By late afternoon, nearly all of the state's site had been put back=20 online.

"It was more that we needed to take down those sites to make sure a = virus=20 couldn't spread," she said.

It is not unusual for the state's computer system to be the target of = hackers, but having problems at four separate branches of state = government=20 prompted the decision to take down nearly the entire system, she = said.

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