Brazil took down Argentina on the soccer field on Sunday September 6th in a World Cup qualifier. Last Friday, hackers took Argentina down… this time online. The Argentina Football Association had their website hacked and Diego Maradona was seemingly the target. The former Argentina star and current Argentina coach appears on the website in a Brazil uniform. Apparently, the image is not a Photoshop and comes from a television commercial. In any case, it has to be extremely embarrassing to lose to your arch-rival and then have hackers add insult to injury.
Via The Spoiler:
A hacker operating under the name ‘KKR’ gave the Argentinean football authorities another headache last Friday, as he exposed security lapses in the official AFA website.
Visitors to the site who may have been seeking information information on the hapless South American side were instead treated to a picture of Diego Maradona in a Brazil shirt, with the caption “A picture is worth a thousand words.”
It’s not a Photoshopped image you see, but a still from an advert for a South American soft drink, in which the former recreational drug fan made the extremely regrettable decision to wear the colours of his fierce national rivals. Check out the advert at the bottom of this post.
Even though the security breach occurred last Friday (for the third time, incidentally), the AFA website is still down.
