It’s unclear what the New York State Board of Elections has to do with the World Cup, but its website was hacked this morning by Anonymous in a protest against the Brazilian government’s spending of $11 billion to bring the World Cup to the country. The website was down for most of the day, impacting at least dozens of people who tried to visit it and putting Brazil’s World Cup efforts in peril.
According to Hacker News Bulletin, the NYS BOE website was briefly taken over by this video, which criticizes the “corrupt” Brazilian government for brutal crackdowns on Brazilian protesters and “destroying the lives of millions of Brazilians.” Remember when Brazil was going to host the World Cup, then a New York government website got hacked and Brazil canceled the whole thing?
Full Article: NY Board Of Elections Website Hacked To Protest… World Cup: Gothamist.