Hacker Attacks Vatican Website

Case information
Incident date
Geographic scope
Country unknown
Categories
  • Social Hostility / Intolerance
Attack Against
  • Faith
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Islamist
  • Private
Religious Freedom / Discrimination
  • Exclusion (of individuals or ideas)
  • Freedom of Expression

Twice in one week, the Vatican website was partly inaccessible due to attacks from hackers. On Twitter someone named "Turk Hack Team Herakles" claimed responsibility, saying he would continue until the pope apologized for referring to a Turkish genocide against Armenians 100 years ago.

Source: kathpress