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Hacker Attack Brings Down Animation Websites

At the tail end of 2005, a computer hacker calling himself "the Persian Fox" began attacking hundreds of U.S. websites, including scores run by animation companies.

?You keep abusing, Islam?s almighty Prophet with disgusting and disgraceful cartoons using excuses of freedom of speech? reads the onscreen message (including the misplaced comma) that replaced the sites? regular content. The majority of sites hacked, however, have no connection to the recent uproar over Danish cartoons belittling Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. AWN Headline News

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