Kildare county board baffled by website attack

The Kildare County Board are still trying to get to the bottom of the cyber attack on their official website last weekend.

Kildare county board baffled by website attack

Last Sunday, the county's homepage was replaced with words under the heading "United Islamic Cyber Force, Jabhatul Nursa Baaqiyah". A song in Arabic was also part of the hack.

The website was quickly rebooted and restored to its original content but Kildare are at a loss to explain why they were targeted.

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