Spain’s Official Website for EU Presidency Hacked
The official website of Spain’s European Union for presidency, www.eu2010es, was hacked where a large picture of Mr. Bean smiling was displayed in the site.
It been a joke in Spain for years now that the British actor, Rowan Atkinson, who played as Mr. Bean, looks really alike to Spain’s Socialist prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. El Pais, Spain’s leading newspaper, has published an article against the government handling the economy with the cartoon image showing Mr. Zapatero as Mr. Bean. The problem of unemployment in Spain has increased twice to about 19 percent.
Mr. Zapatero’s official verified that a security breach caused the hack of the website covering Spain’s 6-month presidency of the European Union. Fortunately, the site information is not affected at all. El Mundo, another newspaper from Spain, showed to the public the screenshot Mr. Bean appearing in the official webpage. During that time, anyone who visited the website will receive a “Hi there!” greeting by Mr. Bean. Thousands of users flooded the site to prove if the spoof is true.
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