VATICAN CITY
V3 (United Kingdom)
by Gareth Morgan
08 Mar 2012
Hackers affiliated with Anonymous have turned their attentions to the Catholic Church, taking down the Vatican’s website for several hours on Wednesday and cutting off email access.
A spokesman for the Vatican, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See Press Office, confirmed to the Catholic News that vatican.va had been the “object of an attack”, but declined to add further details.
Groups claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous said the attack was revenge for a number of historical atrocities carried out by the Catholic Church.
The group accused the church of covering up details of sexual abuse suffered by children at the hands of Catholic priests and hiding Nazi war criminals.
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