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To: Scrapps who wrote (18877)	5/28/1999 4:26:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

Hackers Force The FBI To Shut Down Its Web Site Reuters - Friday May 28 12:51 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hackers apparently retaliating against FBI raids overwhelmed the agency's Internet site this week in an electronic attack that has forced it to shut down the site, the FBI said Friday. The FBI, which investigates computer hacking and helps safeguard the security of the U.S. government's computers, said the Web site -- fbi.gov -- went down Wednesday evening. FBI officials did not know when it would be back online. They said the FBI was investigating the attack as an act of retaliation after search warrants were carried out earlier this week in Seattle, Houston and parts of California in an investigation into computer hackers. They said the FBI has yet to identify any suspects responsible for the attack. The officials emphasized that the hackers did not actually penetrate the FBI's Web site or change any files there. They said the hackers apparently ran a program on another computer that flooded the IBM computer hosting the FBI's Web site -- as if millions of Internet users had tried to read the Web site. It resulted in a denial of service, they said. FBI spokesman Paul Bresson described its Web site ''as a public relations tool'' containing press releases and speeches. ''There's nothing on it that is in any way sensitive or classified,'' he said. On Capitol Hill, the U.S. Senate's Sergeant at Arms closed down the Senate's Web site, as well as senators' and committee Web pages linked to it, after the site was hacked at 7:53 p.m. Thursday, spokeswoman Sherry Little said. She said hackers filled the site with pictures of special education students and misspelled words. Congressional e-mail and other systems were not affected, Little said, adding that the Senate site and its links were shut down temporarily ''to figure out how to resolve the problem.'' The attacks were the latest in a series of incidents by hackers involving U.S. government Web sites. In mid-May, the White House Web site was briefly shut down because of an attempt to tamper with it by unidentified hackers. After NATO mistakenly bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade earlier this month, Chinese hackers targeted several U.S. government Web sites. In past years, the Justice Department's site was shut down by hackers who put Nazi swastikas on its home page, and hackers forced the CIA to shut down its site after changing the name from ''Central Intelligence Agency'' to ''Central Stupidity Agency.'' o~~~ O