Hackers Breached US Army Servers

May 28, 2009 · Print This Article

An anonymous reader writes “A Turkish hacking ring has broken into 2 sensitive U.S. Army servers, according to a new inspection uncovered by InformationWeek. The hackers, who go by the name ‘m0sted’ and are based in Turkey, penetrated servers at the Army’s McAlester Ammunition Plant in Oklahoma in January. Users attempting to access the site were redirected to a page featuring a climate-change protest. In Sept, 2007, the hackers breached Army

Corps of Engineers servers. That hack sent users to a page containing anti-American and anti-Israeli rhetoric. The hackers used simple SQL Server injection techniques to gain access. That’s troubling considering it shows a major Army shield lapse, and plus the ability to bypass supposedly sophisticated Defense area tools and procedures designed to prevent such breaches.”