Web Site Owners Discover Terrorists Secretly Hacked their Crafts Web Site

[mandy]

What happened to these site owners is becoming increasingly common.  Hackers used to deface web sites but now they are careful to cover their tracks.  Spammers and Financial data/identity theft phishers also use the stealth hacking technique to take over web sites and personal computers.

A plumber who loves glass etching, Andrew Roberge had crafts to sell. His son, Mike, knew Web design. Carriage House Glass is the marriage of their talents, an online catalog of sandblasted vases and goblets that ''caters to those who love beautiful and unique gifts," the site proclaims...

But the website, which they started four years ago, offered more than just beautiful baubles, specialists in terrorism say. The site contained hidden files filled with the radical writings of a top aide to Osama bin Laden...

The website was hacked a year ago by followers of Suri, a Syrian-born Al Qaeda leader, who turned the Roberge's labor of love into an online reading room for aspiring mujahadeen, the specialists said. The revelation came as a shock to the Roberges, who said they had no idea that Islamic extremists had intruded on their website...

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