Vatican.va, the Vatican website brought down by Turkish Hacker following Popes Armenian Genocide comment on Sunday
A Turkish hacker has brought down the official Vatican City website www.vatican.va, following Pope Francis controversial statement in which he referred to the mass killings of Armenians by Turks as genocide.
The website www.vatican.va was first taken down through a Distributed Denial of Service [DDoS] attack on Monday evening by Turkish hacker operating under the Twitter handle@THTHerakles.
THTHerakles had announced on Twitter that he would continue to target the website should an official apology not be issued from the Vatican City.
https://t.co/ybH1M8kXFa#news#hack#Security#Vatican#DownOur actions against the Pope’s statement will continue.pic.twitter.com/pFDq92yPuX
B O R U (@Turkishw0lf)April 13, 2015
At the time of publishing this article, the official Vatican City website is still under attack.
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source: www.techworm.net
