Finnish coppers have warned the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia that its home page might be illegal.
The outfit which made Mike Magee and the Everywhere Girl "disappear" received a note from the National Police Board of Finland over the site's home page which contains an advertisement for funding.
Finland's foreign minister says foreign intelligence agents had carried out large-scale hacking into government communications, and a Finnish TV station said China and Russia were suspected.
Erkki Tuomioja said the breach of the Foreign Ministry's data network was discovered in spring, and Finland's intelligence service was investigating it as a case of serious espionage.
Back in 2009, Finland announced what might be the world’s most ambitious national broadband plan: a guaranteed minimum service level of 1Mbps for all homes and companies by 2010. That goal is then planned to be kicked up to 100Mbps, served via a fixed connection or wireless, by 2015 (Google Translate).
Hackers claiming to be part of hacktivist collective Anonymous have been accused of issuing a bomb threat and launching a campaign of cyber attacks against a Finnish anti-piracy group.
The actions were made in protest against the Finnish government’s decision to force Elisa, one of the country’s largest ISPs, to block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay.
The login details of 73,000 users of a popular Finnish family-oriented discussion forum were stolen and posted online in the latest in a series of widespread hacking attacks, police said Monday.
"We are aware of this incident and are investigating it as part of our wider investigation into the hacking attacks," police investigator Timo Piiroinen told AFP.
Finland is being targeted by a cyber activism campaign, police acknowledged Tuesday, after an apparent local branch of online "hacktivist" group Anonymous said it had hacked some 500,000 email accounts.
"It's beginning to look like a campaign," Timo Piiroinen of Finland's National Bureau of Investigation told AFP. A group calling itself Anonymous Finland has claimed responsibility for a number of recent hacking incidents in the Nordic country, including hacking and publishing some 500,000 email accounts as well as nearly 15,000 passwords.
