Japanese Hackers Attack Government Web Site Over Territorial Row With China
Urawa, Japan, 5 March: The Saitama prefectural government closed its web site Monday [5 March] after discovering that hackers had pasted on the site messages criticizing Japan over a territorial row with China, prefectural officials said.
The top page of the site had been replaced with a picture of a Chinese tank and Chinese-language messages, one of which claimed the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea - known as the Diaoyu Islands in Chinese - belong to China.
Web sites of some Japanese government departments were found to have been vandalized by hackers in January and February 2000 with messages criticizing Japan for the 1937-1938 Nanjing Massacre. Police have yet to find the hackers responsible.
Kyodo News Service, Tokyo, in English 1306 GMT 5 Mar 01
