Newswire VietNamNet said the hackers that attacked its website two times during the last two months might be Vietnamese who could have certain connections with its staff.
Bui Minh Minh, assistant to the editor-in-chief in charge of technology, said the hackers may have taken over the website from inside Vietnam.
VietNamNet is working with central police to track out the culprits, he said.
On Monday 8am, hackers took over VietNamNet’s homepage and posted a story revealing its suspected source code and internal conflicts involving some contracts besides information slandering top editors at the said newspaper.
The article was removed soon after that.
Two weeks earlier, the country’s most popular online newspaper was disrupted at 3 am.
It took a whole morning for technicians to retrieve the website.
The hackers had left several messages on the homepage: “HacKeD by TeaM MosTa AlgeriaN HackEr,” “I want Say... Secur!Ty,” “Tnks Alahe,” and “To be or not to be.”
A VietNamNet representative said the hackers had penetrated through the security hole and deleted some data.
VietNamNet is the 11th most visited website in Vietnam, according to web monitoring service Alexa.
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