14 DAY TRIAL // We all know that hackers are always struggling to find new vulnerable targets, attack them and take advantage of the found weaknesses. But when a hacker manages to infiltrate into a website belonging to a country's government and modify its content, this really means something. For them, I mean, because they can be really proud of what they did, no matter if they post their nicknames on the hacked page or they prefer to remain anonymous.
This is exactly what happened a few days ago, when the official website of Panama's National Assembly got hacked by someone who appears to be an American hacker. What's interesting is that the person who managed to get access inside the website's files published a U.S. flag on the main page, a matter of fact that supports the idea that the hacker was American.
However, there are lots of speculations concerning the hack attack. "Unnamed officials accordingly suspect the attack may have come from the US, possibly provoked by the election to the legislature's presidency last September of Pedro Miguel Gonzalez - wanted in the States for the 1992 murder of US Army Sergeant Zac Hernandez," The Register informs quoting a Reuters report.
It seems like the website went off-line on January 9th, when the Panamanians celebrated the "Martyr's Day" "on which the country remembers the deaths of roughly 20 people in 1964 in clashes between anti-US protesters and American soldiers protecting the Panama Canal Zone," as The Register explains.
This wouldn't be the first time when a hacker coming from a certain country hacks the official website belonging to another nation and places his national flag on the page. It happened in the past when the Peruvian president's official website was hacked, the attacker publishing a message praising the Chilean residents.