Jewish Chronicle's website hacked

The Jewish Chronicle's website was suspended for around 18 hours after an attack by hackers who placed a Palestinian flag and anti-Semitic messages on its homepage. The site was breached at around 4pm yesterday and was suspended shortly afterwards to allow technicians to fix the problem. It only went back up at 10.30am today. Superimposed on the image of the flag, hackers left a message supporting "Palestinian Mujaheeds" that contained quotations from the Qu'ran and anti-Semitic views in a mixture of English and Turkish. The Jewish Chronicle editor, Stephen Pollard, said the attack had come from a Turkish IP address and that technicians were working to learn more about its precise origins. He said the Metropolitan police had been informed about the incident, the first of its kind to affect the Jewish Chronicle. It follows recent attacks by a group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army on Twitter and the Chinese search engine Baidu . • To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email [email protected] or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. • If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication".