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NIKE WEB SITE HIT BY HACKERS: SITE DOWN SEVEN HOURS

          Hackers "took over" Nike.com on Wednesday morning and
     "channeled all would-be visitors to a Web site that
     encourages people to protest at an upcoming Australian forum
     on the global economy," according to Andy Dworkin of the
     Portland OREGONIAN.  Starting at around 7:00am ET yesterday
     morning, anyone who tried to access Nike.com was "bounced to
     the s11.org Web site, which features pictures of protests
     under the banner headline 'global justice is coming --
     prepare now.'"  The site promotes s11 Alliance, a "loose
     affiliation" of groups that plan to picket against the
     September 11 World Economic Forum in Melbourne.  Nike Dir of
     Internal Communications Corby Casler said that Nike workers
     restored the site "after several hours."  Casler "had no
     estimate for what the hacking cost Nike in lost sales or
     damage to its corporate image."  Since the site was
     interrupted only for a few hours, Casler said, "We don't
     think the damage to the brand [was] great."  The hacker
     "seems to have somehow gained control" of Nike.com through
     FrugalName, a U.K. e-mail and Web site-forwarding service. 
     Casler said that the hackers "never got access to any of the
     content on the site, including any information gathered from
     Nike.com customers" (OREGONIAN, 6/22).  Nike contacted the
     FBI to investigate the incident (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 6/22). 
     

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