Hackers attacked the website of Zimbabwe's state-owned Herald newspaper and shut it down for three days, the newspaper said on Monday, according to a Reuters report. The Herald is widely seen as the official mouthpiece of President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party and has been critical of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) which won the country's disputed March 29 elections.
The website www.herald.co.za has been unavailable since Saturday after it was hacked by someone calling himself "r4b00f". Visitors were redirected to the website of a state-owned Sunday newspaper. Headlines on the site were replaced by the word Gukurahundi, referring to a campaign of atrocities the government has been accused of committing after independence.
"Yes we have been hacked. We are still waiting for our service providers to give us feedback. But we should be up and running by tomorrow," Herald IT Manager Thomson Ndovi told Reuters.
