DENVER - Hackers have managed to take down the city of Denver's website for the second time in less than a week.
If you visited the denvergov.org website Tuesday morning, you landed on a page that told you the site was undergoing maintenance. The site was back up and operating normally by midmorning.
Hackers got into the site late Monday and the site was immediately taken down according to Eric Brown, a spokesman for Mayor John Hickenlooper.
The following message was left on the site's home page after Monday's incident:
"VIRUS-RA3CH WAS HERE"
"W3 C4N'T H4CK A4Y THING ~ BUT
W3 H4CK WH4T W3 W4NT & YOUR
SECURITY INFORMATION HAS BEEN
PASSED OFF"
Brown said a similar breach happened Thursday morning, and the website was down for about six hours. He said the hackers did not access city information then. City website managers haven't said if any information was compromised this time.
No one has said if the two incidents are related or done by the same people.
