Information Security News: 'Free Willy is dead' headline was hacker's hoax

[William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>]

http://www.excite.co.uk/news/print/te/pa_tech_20000719063700_1.txt

July 20, 2000

A computer hacker altered a headline on the Oregon Coast Aquarium's
web site to say Keiko, the movie-star whale, had been killed by
terrorists.

"'Free Willy' is dead," said the item, dated July 14.

Keiko - the star of Free Willy - is alive and well in Iceland. His
trainers have been taking him out into the open ocean since May in an
effort to return him to the wild.

The web site was taken down while the site was restored.


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