[ISN] Hackers introduce colourful new players to Indonesia's elections

[InfoSec News]

http://www.terra.net.lb/wp/Articles/DesktopArticle.aspx?ArticleID=151342&ChannelId=16

19/04/2004 

Indonesia's official elections website showed election successes for
the unlikely "Pink Grandfather Party" and the "Party of Bottled
Mineral Water" after interference by hackers at the weekend, reports
said.

Indonesia's official elections website showed election successes for
the unlikely "Pink Grandfather Party" and the "Party of Bottled
Mineral Water" after interference by hackers at the weekend, reports
said.

The Indonesian General Election Commission (KPU) had to shut down its
website for four hours Saturday after hackers changed the names of
some of the 24 political parties that contested the April 5 vote, the
Jakarta Post said.

The names of the top three political parties were unchanged.

But the fourth-placed United Development Party (PPP) of Vice President
Hamzah Haz, whose party color is Islam's green, became the "Pink
Grandfather Party".

Fifth-placed upstart the Democrats' Party became "the Party of Bottled
Mineral Water", in an apparent reference to its saleability.

The People's Mandate Party, in sixth, became the "Party that must
repair its website first", while 13 others were just changed to "Pink
Party", regardless of their party colors.

The Crescent and Star Party was named after a singing bird, the
Freedom Party took the name of a character in a popular television
series, and the New Indonesian Association Party became "Party of
Midwives", for no apparent reason.

"The hackers tried to hack our data center and recovery center, which
have seven security systems, starting from 6:30 pm. But they failed,"  
said the election commission's information technology division
chairman Akhiar Oemry.

"They only succeeded in hacking our website, which is part of the
public domain," he said.

The website was back on line late Saturday after repairs.