Orchestrated Hacks on Lebanese Government Websites Shows Brewing Social Anger [updated]

I’ve seen many hacks against Lebanese websites, but this is the first one that is not driven by politics or religion. I’ll go out on a limb and call this the Charbel Nahhas hack..

Update: Hack is widespread and spans a carefully selected set of Lebanese government sites. See Sarine’s comment for links.

Update 2: It’s sinking in. The scope of this attack and the ease with which it was conducted is both impressive and frightening. It is one thing to target the Ministry of Emigrant affairs (now restored) and the Beirut Municipality, but it is completely another to target the website of the General Security (restored), the feared security body that issues passports, controls the airport security and immigration. This is deeply embarrassing especially to General Security which should look to this as a serious breach. Such a loss of face should cause heads to roll and should convince the government to once and for all take web security seriously.

Update 3: I wrote a new post on what this hack means and why the government should care.