A hacker or simply call them a cyber criminal hacked into the independent student newspaper of the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) “The Fulcrum” and ended up deleting the entire website early Sunday morning.
The Fulcrum has been serving the University of Ottawa since 1942 while the website has been online since 2006. The deleted content of the website goes all the way back to 2010.
The newspaper lets students contribute online content to its website which, unfortunately, completely vanished in thin air on the weekend. Along with news updates; the unknown hacker also deleted content from website’s About Us, Contact Us, Advertising and Policy page.
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On left: An archive image of The Fulcrum’s website – On the right: The deleted version of The Fulcrum’s website.
However, the hacker published news of their own calling the newspaper with a headline stating “Anti-union rag gets entire website DELETED.” The content of the news mocked the newspaper by saying that “UOttawa student news-rag The Fulcrum has been canceled. Bye-bye.”
The Fulcrum’s website was hacked last night, all of our articles deleted. This is a blatant attack on student journalism. All the stories we published online only are gone. While I’m hopeful our host will be able to recover our work, I’m insanely disappointed that this occurred pic.twitter.com/lFwPzuUpOC
— Anchal (@anchalsharma_) June 30, 2019
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