Hackers direct users of Scottish Catholic website to online pornography in series of cyber attacks on church

SCOTLAND
Herald Scotland

Gerry Braiden, Local Government Correspondent / Friday 4 March 2016

VISITORS to the web page of Scotland’s largest Catholic congregation have been directed to a pornographic site, as it emerges the church has been the victim of a series of cyber attacks.

The Archdiocese of Glasgow said its website had been hacked by a group from Malaysia which had previously targeted HSBC and the Canadian military.

A spokesman for the Archdiocese said the church was now taking additional security precautions to guard against future attacks.

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