Czech Social Democrats Website Hacked

2009-05-27

iHNES.cz is reporting that last week hackers attacked the Czech Social Democratic Party (CDDS) website, posting a YouTube video that mocks the CSSD in the European Parliament elections.

The video showed CSSD chairman Jiri Paroubek with Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and his Czechoslovak cooperator, communist president Klement Gottwald, each with a five-pointed star above their head. It also showed caricatures of present and former CSSD leaders. Even though the video was taken down after 23 hours, it was still being spread via Facebook, a social networking site. This is not the first political attack against a website, last April the Australia Classification Board was hacked when a Wikileaks document revealed plans to filter Internet content.

The Social Democrats believe that it is the rival Civic Democratic Party (ODS) who is responsible for these attacks, but the ODS has dismissed these allegations.