ITALY
Computerworld
By Jaikumar Vijayan
March 7, 2012
Computerworld – The main website of the Vatican was inaccessible Wednesday after what appears to have been an attack by malicious hackers claiming to be affiliated with the Anonymous hacking collective.
An Associated Press story in USA Today quoted Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi as confirming the site’s unavailability but declining to comment on the likely source of the problem.
The Vatican could not be reached for comment at deadline.
A website claiming to be the official blog of Anonymous in Italy on Wednesday posted a message taking credit for the attack. A rough Google translation of the message, which is in Italian, suggests that the site was taken down to protest church doctrine and the molestation of children, by clergy members.
The message makes references to the church’s alleged prosecution of detractors, its allegedly anachronistic views and the sexual abuse of children by priests.
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