HACKERS ATTACK TURKEY-BASED ARMENIAN NEWSPAPER, FOUNDATION SITES

Hurriyet Daily News
Feb 12 2010
Turkey

The Web site of Turkey’s leading Armenian newspaper was hacked in
the early hours on Friday. Hackers also attacked the Web sites of
two Turkey-based foundations.

Hackers identifying themselves as "AK Hacker" overtook the Agos
Web site and put up an image of Ogun Samast, the alleged murderer
of the former editor in chief of the daily, Hrant Dink. The image
was accompanied by a text that criticized opposition to the ruling
party and stated the act of hacking was "an action that will go on
to spread like poison to others who oppose the current powers."

The International Hrant Dink Foundation and the Art for Peace
Foundation were also hacked around the same time. An official from
the Hrant Dink foundation told the Hurriyet Daily News that they were
uncertain if the site was attacked by the same hackers.

An attempt to view the Art for Peace Web site led to an error page
bearing the same redirect address as the Agos Web site.

Threatening messages

The note on the Agos site also made a chilling threat given the murder
of Hrant Dink: "If you do not fix your reporting in the way we see fit,
there will be new Ogun Samasts and new Hrant Dinks."

Here’s a translation of the full text on the hacked site:

"You either love or you leave it. Or like the traitor Hrant, you die
and disappear. You are you. You know yourself as much as we know you.

You lived through what you deserved and it will continue as such. This
act take on behalf of the Turkish flag, which is not on your Web site,
and in the name of the Turkish Republic, will continue to spread like
poison to others who oppose the current powers and everyone who opposes
will be affected as such. If you do not change your articles and your
words and your actions along the lines that we see fit, then there
will be new Ogun Samasts and new Hrant Dinks. Thinking you’re smart is
your biggest ignorance. Just as the traitors who have given up their
Turkishness will one day be expelled from the borders of this country,
Turkey will be cleansed thanks to the current powers in Turkey and all
slander campaigns will be unsuccessful and inconclusive from now on.

"GAME OVER!

"Who are we?

"Hate, loathsome, Muco, Mr. Bond

"Do you remember?

"Ak Hackers"