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Iran: An important Shi'a server was hacked

Thursday, September 18th, 2008 @ 22:50 UTC

by Hamid Tehrani

Countries:: Iran
Topics:: Cyber-Activism, Religion

Javanrood, an Iranian blogger, says [Fa] the most important Shi'a server was hacked by Group-xp, a Wahabite group. Several high ranked clerics' sites have been hacked too.

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Hernani

Sent a link please with the defacement

# 2008-09-19 at 16:00 pm

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Hamid Tehrani

Hi
Most sites that reported news did not publish a photo/image…but I found one: http://shia-online.ir/article.asp?id=2976&cat=1 Second image appeared in the sites.

# 2008-09-20 at 5:38 am

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