Attempt from South Korea to heck on Weekly Blitz site

by News Desk
June 25, 2011

http://www.weeklyblitz.net/1533/attempt-from-south-korea-to-heck-on-weekly-blitz

For a number of times, a hacker from South Korea tried to heck into the online site of Weekly Blitz on June 24, 2011.

According to records available with Weekly Blitz, the hacking attempts took place during 12:10:06 hours to 12:27:34 hours from an IP address 121.137.207.84 [Host 121.137.207.84] from South Korea. The hacker is from Seoul, Korea. The Internet Service Provide name is Korea Telecom [KORNET]. The IP address is owned by Sudogwongangnambonbujang, Jangji-dong, Gwonseon-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do.

A letter has already been sent to the Host of the IP address from Weekly Blitz with the request of taking necessary action against the owner of the mentioned IP address for unlawful hacking attempt, which is a cyber crime.

This is for the first time in past 8 years, that any South Korean hacker has attempted to hack into Weekly Blitz site. Earlier, Weekly Blitz received numerous emails from unknown senders with the request of removing some of the contents of the newspaper. The hackers also attempted to place links to pornographic materials on various news contents of Weekly Blitz.

Weekly Blitz started its journey in 2003 as the only anti-Jihadist newspaper in the Muslim world. The online edition of the newspaper was also launched in the same year. During past eight years, Weekly Blitz has already turned into the most influential newspaper in Bangladesh. The newspaper continues to confront Jihad, religious extremism, terrorism, religious hatred and anti-Semitism. Office of this newspaper had been attacked a number of times since 2006. Islamist militancy group Khatmey Nabuat Movement [KNM] led by radical clergy Mufti Noor Hussain Noorani bombed the office of Blitz in 2006. In the same year, the office was attacked by the then ruling party thugs.

In 2008, editor of Weekly Blitz was abducted at gun point by the members of Rapid Action Battalion. It was later learnt that, an influential member of the military controlled interim government was behind this abduction. Blitz editor was released in couple of hours at the quick intervention of the then US Congressman Mr. Mark Steven Kirk and internationally known human rights activist Dr. Richard L Benkin.

In 2008, the office of Weekly Blitz was attacked, ransacked, looted and the staffs physically assaulted by the members of the current ruling party. This incident took place in presence of the members of the law enforcing agencies.

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