Sierra Club Website Hacked

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Has hacktivism reached Hawaii? The Sierra Club Hawaii Chapter was unable to accept donations through its website, SierraClubHawaii.com, for a couple of days after a hacker overwhelmed its system with false entries. One blogger calls the episode an act of “political warfare,” saying the club made enemies by suing to force a new Environmental Impact Statement for Turtle Bay and criticizing the environmental record of gubernatorial candidate Mufi Hannemann.

Read it at Ian Lind’s blog.

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