P.A. Police launch new website after hacking breach
The Prince Albert Police Service launched a newly-designed website today, after their former site fell victim to a hacking attack earlier this week.
The police service’s website was breached Wednesday morning by an unknown party, and was replaced by a message reading “Hacked By Team System Dz” and “I Love Islamic state.” An audio file of an Arabic-language poem was heard playing in the background. The police department’s IT department quickly removed the hacker’s message, but the website remained offline throughout the day Thursday.
This morning the police service launched a newly-designed website. Police spokesperson Alanna Adamko said the new website had been in the works for several months. Although the new website bears a .net domain name, Adamko said the new site can still be accessed at papolice.ca.
“We just decided to launch it a bit earlier than our original scheduled date, and we’re very happy with it so far,” Adamko said, adding the previous website’s technology was dated.