Web Site Hacked - 01.27.2006

Screenshot of hacked Russian Jewish web site

Extremists Hack Russian Jewish Web Site

January 27, 2006 - NCSJ received an email alert that the World Congress of Russian Jewry web site (www.wcrj.org) had been hacked by the skinhead group "Slav Union: Russia's National Socialist Movement." The WCRJ notice says that, in 2004, the Slav Union's leader Andrey Dyomushkin claimed responsibility for a similar attack on the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS web site. 

The top left banner on the hacked site reads "The Future Belongs To Us", and the side box reads "Russians Against Narcotics." The text below is an open invitation to a January 29^th meeting in Moscow of the "Slav Union", in conjunction with the Russian Nation Union and other "patriotic organizations" such as the National Patriotic Front.

According to WCRJ, web sites for the Jewish Agency in Rostov-on-Don and for the Jewish community of Saratov were also attacked.

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Jewish Telegraphic Agency - 01.30.2006

Hackers attack Russian Jewish sites

(JTA) - Computer hackers attacked three Russian Jewish Web sites. 

The Russian neo-Nazi group, Slavic Union, claimed responsibility for the attacks on the Web sites of the World Congress of Russian-Speaking Jewry, the Jewish Agency for Israel’s office in Rostov-on-Don and the Jewish community of Saratov. 

The attacks took place last Friday, and according to a Slavic Union Web site, were carried out on international Holocaust Remembrance Day to mark what the group called a “virtual Holocaust” against Russian Jewish Web resources. Slavic Union has previously claimed responsibility for hackers’ attacks against several anti-fascist and liberal Web sites. 

A leader of the World Congress of Russian-Speaking Jewry told JTA that the organization’s Moscow office was going to file a formal complaint with the authorities.