https://globalnews.ca/news/5452169/hacker-deletes-all-content-university-of-ottawa-newspaper-website/
By Christopher Whan
Global News
July 2, 2019
Editors at the University of Ottawa's student newspaper, The Fulcrum, were
treated to an unpleasant surprise late Saturday night when all of the
content on their website had been deleted and replaced with a single post
making fun of the hack.
The one article left showed a photo of an unknown man giving the middle
finger to the camera with the headline: “Anti-union rag gets its entire
website DELETED.”
“It was a huge shock, everyone was in a bit of a panic,” said Matt
Gergyek, editor-in-chief of The Fulcrum.
According to Gergyek, as the newspaper is run by students, the majority of
the staff are gone during the summer months with a skeleton crew of
editors and freelancers there to update the web. The president and general
manager were in Ottawa at the time.
Gergyek himself is in Hamilton for the summer and was out with friends in
Toronto when he learned about the hack from a staffer in Saskatchewan.
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