A top cop website was hacked - by a monster-type creature!
The cheeky hackers broke into London's Metropolitan Police recruitment website, and posted a picture of a cuddly toy on its front page.
And beneath the picture of the green stripy animal they added taunting comments.
The message posted by "Officer Brobee" referred to the Scotland Yard's SO15 counter-terrorism unit.
It said: "OH HAI GUYS do joo wanna bes a policeman lulz?"
"I see that teh so15 anti-terrorism anti-lulz police are hiring more incompetent nervy edgy socipaths to make London's streets just that little bit safer!"
"OH LULZ. SHOUTS TO l0g1kal for being such a leet dude and to LULKITTEH for being so fancy."
A spokesman for the Met said they were aware of the hack.
"We are aware of an unauthorised image and text having been placed on the Met Careers internet site," a statement issued by the force said.
"The Met Careers site is managed by an external company who are responsible for its upkeep.
"We will discuss this with the service provider at the earliest possible time."
The embarrassing message and cuddly monster were later removed.
I nearly choked on my cup of coffee, very amusing, even more amused to read it was a machine running windows 2000. Their are conflicting stories all over the net as to what actually happened, SQL injection is what we’re being told was the cause but who made that extremely bright assessment? The same officers responsible for the website’s up keep or was it their service provider?
Just how does someone upload a picture with an SQL injection?
If it was indeed a windows 2000 machine then it sounds far more plausible that the front-page password was decrypted and used to upload the offending image and text.
At first the police said nothing of importance was taken, but then that statement was revised to say that the details of 50’000 of their officers could have been compromised.
Outstanding!