BPD Blog Invaded by Turkey

Much to the dismay of those hoping to keep up with non-fatal shootings, non-fatal stabbings, and bachelorette parties "gone wrong," BPD News, the Boston police department's online blotter, has fallen prey to individuals who claim to be Turkish hackers. "hacked by metlak / Ownz here / F*&k papa." originally replaced the site's content. Metlak, is that meant to be an insult of Big Papi? Metlak and company have left their fingerprints on Massachusetts news websites before - the hacker took down the website for the Greenfield Recorder back in June. Turkish hackers have been blamed for taking down even bigger fish than the BPD blog, including European websites for Sony Music and the Bolivian Foreign Ministry.

According to a Boston Police Department missive on Universal Hub and the Globe, the BPD's hosting service is working on the problem, and the "F*&k papa" message is gone. They're making progress as a "test post" is now up and the BPD site seems to be recovering. If you have the urge to read BPD News, you can still access older pages through Internet search engines and cached files. The BPD News site is hosted by an external company and doesn’t' sit on a city server. Perhaps if they were under the protection of Government Center (or even the Roxbury fortress) rather than out milling about in the open sea of cyberspace they wouldn't be a Cyprus for the Turks to invade.

Contributed by Caroline Roberts. Image, which is one of the Metlak clan's images appeared on the site over here when they were hacked. Honestly, we like the hacked version better

Update: Everything appears to be up and running at BPDNews as usual now.