The Vatican has confirmed a second attack against its website by the Anonymous hacking group, and an infiltration of its radio database.
The Vatican has confirmed a second hack on its systems by the Anonymous activist group.
A Vatican spokesman on Tuesday downplayed the impact of the hack on the Vatican Radio database, saying the hackers had gained access to an old server "shortly after 2pm" on Monday.
"There was a second attack we are aware of directed against the [Vatican IP] address," said the spokesman. "[Concerning] Vatican Radio, a database on an old server was accessed. Thirty percent of the information on the server was so outdated it was of no use."
Anonymous claimed to have hacked Vatican Radio in protest against the Vatican Radio allegedly using "repeaters with power transmission largely outside the bounds of the law" in a Pastebin post on Monday.
AnonOps Communications, a recognised mouthpiece of the hacktivist collective, published a link to the Pastebin post on Tuesday. Comments on the post called for alleged LulzSec members arrested last week by the FBI and international law enforcement to be freed.
"Almost any protest which bares the request 'free the LulzSec team' is a honourable cause [sic]," said the comment.
Anonymous first took down the Vatican website last Wednesday, in protest against the Roman Catholic Church, which Anonymous accused of actions including the molestation of children by priests.
The first successful Vatican hack was made a day after the LulzSec arrests which saw prominent LulzSec hacker 'Sabu' — Hector Xavier Monsegur — exposed as an FBI informant.
The AnonymousIRC Twitter channel said on Tuesday that the FBI had done Anonymous "a favour" by arresting Sabu.
"Not rocket science," said the Tweet. "Really. Hacks will continue and so will the anger of the people. Arresting Sabu is not a win for the FBI it was a favour [sic]."(...)
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