Singapore Opposition Party Site Hacked

25/01/2003 Written by infosecnews

The Sin­ga­pore Demo­c­ra­tic Party’s (SDP) web site has been defaced, but, curi­ously, the gov­ern­ment oppo­si­tion party has taken the attack as a com­pli­ment, pre­fer­ring to leave its hacked site intact.

Report­ing on the saga, the Straits Times says that party plans on set­ting up a new web site, with another domain name, leav­ing the old site — with the mes­sage ‘Mature Sex’ on its front page — intact.

The paper says that the SDP left a mes­sage on the Sin­ter­com polit­i­cal dis­cus­sion forum, say­ing that the party takes the hack as a com­pli­ment on the effi­cacy of the site and its con­tents.

Bizarrely, other Sin­ga­porean reports say the hacker that changed the SDP’s front page is thought to be from Poland.