Islamist hackers seize control of Defra's air-quality website
by Damien Gayle from Technology | The Guardian on (#6J37)
Group calling itself Moroccan Islamic Union-Mail posts picture of Saddam Hussein and criticises Britain for its role in invasion of Iraq
Islamist hackers seized control of the government's official air-quality website to post a message criticising Britain for its role in the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Visitors on Tuesday morning to the UK-Air website, part of the Department of Food, the Environment and Rural Affairs, were greeted with a black background with a a large portrait of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
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