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Official website of The Crown Prince, Kuwait, Hacked For Xmas

Posted on December 25, 2012 by Lee J

xmas Anonymous hacktivist have attacked a Kuwait government website (https://www.cpd.gov.kw/) that belongs to the Crown Prince. The attack has been labeled Antisec and contains a simple Merry Xmas message as well as a copy of the servers /etc/shadow file. The defacement has a very common design with black background with red text that has been seen many times before from other antisec defacement’s. The attack was announced from the @AnonymousIRC Account on twitter as a Xmas Card and they also stated the server was "rooted" for this reason. > Crown Prince of Kuwait root’d to upload #AntiSec Merry Xmas Card cpd.gov.kw #Anonymous #LulzSec #FreeAnons — AnonymousIRC (@AnonymousIRC) December 24, 2012

At time of publishing the site was still defaced and a mirror had also been made on Zone-Hmerry-xmas-everybody

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