Hackers Attack Epilepsy Forum

Ap Health The Epilepsy Foundation website has been bombarded with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images which could cause seizures for those with epilepsy.
by The Associated Press
Published: Thu, May 08, 2008 - 4:36 pm CST Last Updated: Thu, May 08, 2008 - 6:28 pm CST
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A Web site set up by the Epilepsy Foundation
has been hit by hackers, in an attack apparently motivated by
malice, rather than money.
An official with the foundation says computer hackers breached
the foundation's site, bombarding it with hundreds of pictures and
links to pages with rapidly flashing images.
The images can be harmful to people with photosensitive epilepsy
because they can suffer seizures when they're exposed to flickering
images.
The foundation says the successful attack triggered severe
migraines and near-seizure reactions in some site visitors who
viewed the images.
The foundation says the FBI is investigating the breach.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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justme Says:
Thu, May 08, 2008 at 7:51 pm

These people need to be tracked down and charged with attempted murder,  promoting a hate crime, Misuse of public domain, and any other charges that made be determined.

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