The first cyberattack took place nearly 200 years ago in France
by Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing on (#3R5DH)
France created a national mechanical telegraph system in the 1790s; in 1834, a pair of crooked bankers named Franiois and Joseph Blanc launched the first cyberattack, poisoning the data that went over the system in order to get a trading advantage in the bond market. (more")