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Hackers break into Hidalgo County, Texas, Web site.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2004

By Alma Walzer, The Monitor, McAllen, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 11--EDINBURG, Texas -- The official Hidalgo County Web site fell victim last weekend to an international computer hacking group known by the names of Dead_c0de and Kernel_Attack, believed to be based in Brazil.

The hackers defaced the county's main page on or about Dec. 5 and posted an obscene message directed at President George W. Bush, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and the United States of America.

Using Portuguese and English, the group said "we are not kiddies, nor are we nerds, much less hackers," according to the message on the Web site's main page. "Kernel_Attack ownZ you." It is not known exactly how long the message remained on the county...

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