U.N. Internet sites hit by hackers

Hackers breached the United Nations Web site during the weekend, prompting the world body on Monday to stop posting new information while technicians evaluated the system, U.N. officials said. Early on Sunday, the hackers defaced the official Web site on pages reserved for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with slogans accusing the United States and Israel of killing children. The United Nations quickly removed the hackers' messages and on Monday stopped updating the site while the system was assessed, U.N. spokeswoman Michele Montas said. In addition to the main U.N. site, the web pages for the Economic and Social Council and the Paris Web site of the U.N. Environment Program were also attacked, Montas said. (Reuters)