A hacker that goes by the name of Ammar Liverpool has taken credit for the attack

Oct 31, 2013 07:56 GMT  ·  By

An Anonymous-affiliated hacker that uses the online moniker Ammar Liverpool has breached and defaced a total of three websites belonging to Italian educational institutions. All of the websites are hosted on government domains.

The websites are the ones of the State High School Eleonora Pimentel Fonseca (liceofonseca.gov.it), the Comprehensive Institute “Russo-Montale” (comprensivorussomontale.gov.it) and the Comprehensive Institute “Capaccio-Paestum” (secondocircolocapaccio.gov.it).

The sites are most likely hosted on the same server, which has allowed the hacker to easily deface their homepages.

In addition to the websites hosted on government domains, the hacker has also defaced tens of other commercial sites from Italy.

At the time of writing, the sites of the educational organizations are still defaced, despite the fact that around 10 hours have passed since the attack.