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South Yorkshire Police website hacked by 'Albanians' | |
(about 1 hour later) | |
South Yorkshire Police's website has been hacked by a group purporting to be from Albania. | |
Following Sunday's hack, the front page of the site showed an Albanian banner and a carousel of images including football fans at Euro 2016. | |
It later changed to a message claiming "no data was leaked" and signed "Albanian Hackers". | |
A security expert warned the attack is "potentially very serious". | |
The force said it would use its Facebook and Twitter accounts to pass on any information while its technical team tried to regain control of the site. | |
By 15:00 BST the site appeared to have returned to normal. | |
'Deface page' | |
Eliza May Austin, information security employee for EA Games, said the hackers could access restricted information. | |
She said: "If they have compromised the website, that means they might have direct access to the back-end database of the website." | |
"It depends on what kind of information can be processed through the site and whether it is connected to anything else on the system," she added. | |
The first image posted by the group proclaimed: "It's Good To Be Albanian." | |
Later, the red and black image was replaced by text on a white background. | |
The message read: "no worry no data was leaked or deleted, simple a deface page was uploaded." | |
Last year, the Daily Mail reported a hack on Falmouth Town Council by the same group. | Last year, the Daily Mail reported a hack on Falmouth Town Council by the same group. |