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DoCoMo gets defaced
Red faces in the land of the Rising Sun
Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo shut down part of its Web site last week after an attack by Internet vandals.
DoCoMo was forced into action after pages on the Web site which allowed business customers to contact the mobile operator were defaced. WirelessWeek reports that the cracker left his name along with the phrase "never die" on the defaced portion of the site.
"To avoid any confusion among our customers, we closed down the page, and we don't know yet when we'll reopen it," spokesman Hiroto Nakagawa told Bloomberg.
DoCoMo pledged to investigate whether unauthorised access was gained to any other parts of the site. This audit will also look at how it can beef up its security systems to prevent further attacks, DoCoMo promised.
It's getting to the point where you're nobody in the IT sector unless you've been hacked. In recent months the sites of Microsoft (several times), Intel and (let's not forget) the RIAA were all spray painted with graffiti by members of the digital underground. ®
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