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Baz_kasp
April 22nd, 2009, 08:22 PM
-{ Quote: "Earlier today some Turkish defacers broke into the New Zealand based registrar Domainz.net (which belongs to MelbourneIT) and redirected some of their customers' high profile web sites to a third party server with a defaced page. Companies which had their New Zealand web sites defaced include Microsoft, HSBC, Coca-Cola, F-secure, Bitdefender, Sony and Xerox." }-

http://www.zone-h.org/news/id/4708
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/22/msn_hijacking/

Important to note the difference here- The weren't directly "hacked", but their domain registrar was, allowing the hackers to carry out the mass defacement.