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Hackers hit autism support groups

March 23, 2010

Hackers have crashed the internet services of two Australian autism support groups and a third organisation may also have been hacked.

Australia's autism service provider Austism Spectrum Australia (ASPECT) is losing hundreds of dollars in online gifts each day after it was targeted early on Sunday. Austism Victoria's intranet service also went down.

Damage included the closure of web forums, a group email service and registration pages for events. Another target hit was the codeword-restricted intranet site for the autism training organisation Positive Partnerships.

The first two attacks, which experts said appeared to be deliberate, were traced to internet provider addresses in the US.

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