Russian hackers claim downing of Ukrainian president's website

0 Comments | AFP, October, 2007

KIEV (AFP) — Russian nationalists claimed on Tuesday to have hacked into and disabled the official website of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in a retaliation cyber attack.

A group called the Eurasian Youth Union, whose leader is banned from Ukraine for having vandalised Ukrainian national symbols, said it had acted because its own website had come under attack by Ukrainian authorities.

Attacks against Yushchenko's website -- www.president.gov.ua -- began on Sunday and were continuing on Tuesday, the president's press office said, without identifying the suspected hackers.

The press office said it had registered 18,000 separate cyber attacks against the website coming from Britain, Israel, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine and the United States.

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