Unknown hackers defaced the Metropolitan Police's careers website over the weekend.

Digital graffiti on metpolicecareers.co.uk (http://www.metpolicecareers.co.uk) featured a picture of a greenish cuddly monster (vaguely resembling Sulley from Monsters Inc (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0198781)) and a message mocking Scotland Yard's anti-terrorism unit.

The offending message has since been purged from the site. The digital graffiti attack is of little importance, but no less embarrassing for Scotland Yard.

Netcraft reports (http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.metpolicecareers.co.uk) that the site runs on a Windows 2000 platform. ®

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