Subdomains defaced on The Telegraph website

The Telegraph, one of the biggest newspapers in the UK, hasn�t had a good time of it lately where their website is concerned. Vulnerabilities were found back in March 09 involving database access, and it seems a hacking group has gone in and defaced two subdomains.

These are the two subdomains in question:

shortbreaks(dot)telegraph.co.uk
wine-and-dine(dot)telegraph.co.uk/site/index.php

They appear to have been compromised by �R.N.S. � Romanian National Security�. Here�s a screenshot, both defacements are identical:

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Both pages play some music � �The Lonely Shepard�, from a .ru domain (you'll also notice a link to a Top Gear clip hosted on Youtube - it seems this is in relation to comments made in an episode of Top Gear about Romania). Running it through Google Translate gives us this, which is somewhat garbled - we've had an update in the translation thanks to a post in the comments which makes sense of the Google Translate results:

�We are sick and tired of seeing how some "garbage" like you try to mock our country. [And try] to create [for us] a completely different picture compared to the real one, and calling us "romanian gypsies" [,] broadcast s****y tv programs like TopGear."

If you had the nerve to angry an entire country, know that we will not stop here! Romania

Guess What, Gypsies aren't Romanians, morons.�


We�ve notified The Telegraph, and hopefully the pages will be back to normal soon.

Christopher Boyd